Klompching Gallery is delighted to present newly released work, from the archive of Frederic Weber.

Weber has worked with the table-top still life, constructing sets with photographic ephemera sourced from magazines, journals, newspapers, and his own archive of photographs. These were subsequently photographed, full-frame, with medium-format film. Printed to exploit the exquisitely rendered colors, the resulting photographs are at once, challenging and visually enticing.

“The year is 2023. I found myself searching for the negative of an image I made a decade earlier, around 2013. As I sifted through my disorganized archive of negatives, I began to encounter photographs I had long forgotten—images that seemed to speak with a quiet urgency, asking to be seen again. What began as a simple search became an archaeological excavation, a dig through layers of memory, time, and self.

Scanning these rediscovered negatives with the tools of the present, I was struck by how the images felt both familiar and strange—like revenants, returning from the past with new meaning. They carried the traces of who I was, and the shadows of what I could not see then.

Revenants is a collection of forgotten memories and dreams—an exploration of the unconscious as a dark house of hidden rooms. Each image, briefly illuminated, reveals an emotion, a thought, or a longing that once drifted beyond awareness before sinking back into darkness. These glimpses into the unseen connect the work, forming a quiet dialogue between past and present, between what was lost and what is found again”.

(Frederic Weber)