Out of sight out of mind / Loin des yeux loin du coeur (1996), made with Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel, represents a tentative to find another way of collaborating, after the intense and unrelenting Spur of the moment. This time at a distance. It reformulates and extends certain elements underlying the preceding project.
In 1996, the Internet was just starting to take off, anticipating an increasing complexification in the relationship between the private and public spheres. For our project, we attempted to give shape to this change by imagining a hybrid and fanciful form, imbricating different modes of production, distribution and reception (analog photography, the post card, and the Internet) to create a personal channel of communication, a publicly available dialogue between friends.
Exhibitions at the same time in Paris (La Cité Internationale des Arts) and in Copenhague (L’institut Français) were imagined as reactive spaces, a visible process of messages sent and received : computer printouts pinned to the wall, organised by person, in order of reception.
In addition to the unfolding narrative of rather banal daily experiences and the slightly competitive nature of our exchanges, this mixture of different media and their respective and somewhat contradictory spatio-temporal dynamics gives rise to occasional slippages, missed communications, and delays in the production and reception of the messages at the heart of our friendly exchange.
Expositions
- Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 1996
- Institut Français de Copenhague, Danmark, 1996
