Australian artist David Noonan's Paris debut centers on his large, monotone silkscreens of layered historical photographs of stage performers, masks, flowers, graphic fragments, and props. In one image, a group of actors stretch out relaxing; their bodies become patterns both accentuated and obscured by the addition of circular and thatched graphic lines. Another series of smaller collages show children and adults in arts and crafts classes pondering the white page, hanging newspaper from a clothesline, or scribbling on the floor. Noonan's fragmented layering offers no narrative or explanation, though the works' sepia tones allude to artifice and memory, while their dark grounds accentuate the obscure and emotional process of recalling the past.

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