Blanket is pleased to present "Neither Camera nor Companion", an exhibition by Mark Soo with a selection of new works that include photo, video and object-based works. This is Soo’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, which opens March 16 and runs through April 21.

Soo's work often engages specific moments of culture and history, and their interdependence on notions of perception, technology, and modes of representation. Concerned with ongoing changes in photography and the circulation of images, Soo explores new themes in the series "Madame Guillotine". These works depict historical reproductions from the French Revolution, such as coloured etchings and lithographs, which have been re-photographed from library books with a mobile phone then enlarged in a darkroom. During printing, Soo further creates a photogram on the surface, thereby juxtaposing photographic histories that date from its earliest moments to that of its contemporary use. Co-existing as a single exposure, each work is a compression of multiple modes of fidelity, material, and metaphor that oscillate between the etching and the printed page, the indexical and the virtual, and a collective understanding of public images to the limits of a single photo. Reflecting this transition between regimes of image production are elements of the profound changes that transformed the monarchy of the Ancient Régime to the uncertain modernities of a new republic.