Post-Montage* and the Oppositional Gaze

“Two parameters are articulated here: the installation of images in the exhibition space, and the dialectics of reproduction and recording. It is precisely this articulation that defines the apparatuses elaborated by artists like Nauman, Dan Graham, or Pistoletto.” —– *In opposition to this dialectics of recording/reproducing, post-montage can here be defined as the practice of reproducing and arranging images in the digital and/or physical exhibition space, unconcerned with their original materiality, media specificity, and conditions of production.

Jean-François Chevrier & Catherine David, “Actualité de l’image” in Passages de l’image, ed. Raymond Bellour, Catherine David, Christine van Assche, Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 1990, p 29

bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, ed. Amelia Jones, London and New York: Routledge, 2003, p 94