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individual picture puzzle |
My first reaction to the abandoned graffitti site was one of shock at seeing so much garbage left to rot in the place they chose to work. My second reaction was to feel like a spy or an archeologist, gathering evidence for further analysis. There is no doubt to me that graffitti art may mark the beginning of a rebellious and creative life, and so I responded in kind: I photographed the ground with a small digital camera, and then reconstructed the scenes into large, seamless photographs. Each picture was made up of 25-30 separate images. |
| Le Sujet Construit
en Photographie, Superficially, these photographs depicting abandoned objects borrow from the tradition of the still life. The objects, however, are evidently neither glorious nor exceptional, yet their coloring and prevalence in the image force us to consider unsuspected attributes in the banal and the mundane. Careful scrutiny will reveal discreet anachronisms, deliberately placed to destabilize the more astute viewer; the scene has been reconstructed, creating a fiction that captures our imagination in truer-than-life fashion. Marion Bordier, curator
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Installation, Axe Neo-7, Gatineau, QC, May 2006 |
