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this and that (1988-1993) is a series of photographic prints produced with a 35mm pinhole camera designed with the purpose of making continuous panoramic images based on a montage (in the camera) of spatial and temporal discontinuities. Each print consists of a sequence of 4 or 5 consecutive shots that blend together on their lateral edges creating a continuous, fluid image. Each shot is conceived of not as a single image in itself but rather as an element in an ensemble and, one level up, each print is thought of as participating in a still larger sign system.
While producing the photographs, there was an implicit challenge to maintain a chain of thought over days or weeks and to try to remember how to bring together these disparate objects and places in order to create a visual network of spatial, linguistic and formal relationships (color, shape, scale, function, etc.). It was also important to think about how to create cross-references to other elements of prints already existing in the project.
To complicate things, the camera’s deliberate lack of a viewfinder circumscribes the project with a certain amount of chance, and makes the whole process a bit haphasard, unpredictable. Each print thus becomes a record of an improvised performance over time, of experimenting different working methods including how to accomodate the possibility of introducing an element that might undermine the whole sequence, and of materializing an associative trail of images and ideas.
Exhibitions
- Movimentos Improvaveis, Centro Cultural de la Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2003
- L’Effet Film - figures, matières et formes du cinéma en photographie, 1999 -
- Galérie Le Réverbère 2, Lyon, France
- Centre de Photographie de Lectoure
- École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Cherbourg, France
- Mai - photographies, Quimper, France, 1996
Texts
- Nathalie Boulouch (in French)
Enretien, Le Bulletin de la Société Française de Photographie, n° 7, Février 2000 - Philippe Dubois (in French)
MOUVEMENTS IMPROBABLES - L’Effet cinéma dans l’art contemporain, 2003 - Philippe Dubois (in French)
L’EFFET FILM - figures, matières et formes du cinéma en photographie, 1999 - Barbara Tannery (in English)
Interview, Katalog - Quarterly magazine for photography, Spring 1996 - Emmanuel Hermange (in French)
- Catalogue du Mois de la Photo, Paris, 1994
