Guillaume Zuili - Mitteleuropa

In the late 19th century, spirit photography became popular amongst individuals who believed spirits could be caught on camera. These images were created through double-exposure photography and experimentation, often using uncleaned photographic plates and pre-exposed images to have the appearance of ghostly figures.

Since then, double-exposure photography has come a long way, and what began as a way to capture images of departed friends and relatives is now a form of creative expression.

Technically, an echo is a sound effect where a sound wave bounces off a surface and reflects back to the listener, creating a delayed, distinct repetition of the original sound. Used metaphorically, an echo may variously describe a flashback or an awakening to something past.

Zuili’s Mitteleuropa presents as a visual echo contextualizing the past as present. In painterly parlance atmospheric perspective refers to a gentle softening of background in service to foreground images – visual space as time, echoes of the past informing the present. Zuili’s images, technically and conceptually, present, as Herbert Marcuse reminds us in Eros and Civilization, “Time loses its power when remembrance redeems the past.”

Mitteleuropa by Guillaume Zuili will be on display from October 18 until December 13, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 18, from 5:00 - 7:00 pm

A printed version of the catalog is available at the gallery. VIew a digital version.

Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 12 noon to 5 pm, or by appointment.