India #45 Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

1/7 edition All the arts, whether painting, sculpture, drawing, even music, take time. There’s always a back-and-forth, an evolution. It’s that sort of work I was interested in, that space that is almost sacred. I think that in the act of creation, something that you don’t understand, something that happens. Sometimes it is just a gesture that brings you somewhere, but it wasn’t you that decided, it was something else. The canvas? The photo? You? Or something between the two? It’s this space between you and your creation that I find extraordinary, that I find magical. This way of working that I have developed takes a week, a month, sometimes I rework something, revisit it like a painter would, I insert colour, change shapes. There is something at once realist, yet also abstract. I don’t care if the result isn’t accurate. Working like this with photography, I thought, what I am doing is the opposite of photography. It isn’t an instant process, and I am not photographing the real. I do photograph reality, capture real things, but after I construct the imaginary, working with shapes and time. I photograph a time-place over the course of an hour and then I mix everything that has happened during that hour, inventing something that is real but that never took place. People cross paths but they were never in the same place at the same time. I invent moments, it’s a distortion of space and time. There is something cubist within my work, it’s certain, the blocks make you think of the cubist form. At the same time, the cubists were fascinated by the city and created work inspired by it, its urban movement, which greatly interests me. How to translate urban movement? How to translate the city? How to translate life? You can’t translate it in a fixed image, life moves all the time. But how to achieve the impression of movement with a static image? You can achieve that through blur, but that’s already been done. I wanted to find another way. In a way, I’ve updated the cubist style using new technologies. It’s engaging to rethink art history through a new lens. But I’m not sure what I’m doing, you know? I don’t think consciously about it. These references appear unconsciously. Things happen by accident, unintentionally, by magic. Keywords: people, photo, travel, still life, india, cubism, orient

Photography:Manipulated on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:39.4 W x 31.9 H x 0.2 D in

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