This Is Not What You Are Thinking About: Untitled#/18 (Accident series)

Untitled#04/18 (Accident series), variable dimensions, digital print. 2007/09

"While the topical city was once constructed around the 'gate' and the 'port', teletopical "metacity" is now reconstructed around the 'window' & the teleport, that is to say, around the screen and the time slot.No more delay, no more relief, volume is no longer the reality of things. This is now concealed in the flatness of figures. right here and now, life-size is no longer the yardstick of the real. The real is hidden in the reduction of images on the screen. Like a woman worried about putting on weight, being overweight, reality seems to apologise for having a relief, any kind of thickness. (...)"

From Open Sky by Paul Virilio

Untitled#02/18 (Accident series), variable dimensions, digital print. 2007/09

Untitled (Accident series) consists of series of 18 digital photographs with various dimensions and combined for the recollection of an 'event'. A camera witnesses the aftermath of an accident in a city recording the effervescent activity around this event. The gathering of people, the work of the police officers and the fire fighters and the momentum stop of the city flow contribute to create a series of enigmatic images. They are strange but also familiar. A fascination for a dramatic event or for a form of voyeurism that could also be found in the media is contradicted with the use of a technique that gives the impression that the actions are in fact happening in a model and therefore seem to be staged. The process of short depth of field is a technique widely used in interior design magazines as much as in Art. Through the simulation of relief, in the attempt to 're-model' and therefore to give volumes to these images, the aim is to question the various mechanisms which influence our perception of 'reality'.