Pour rester mince, sauf dans sa tête (1/5) Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

The photograph is part of the second "Impressions" series, an experimental project aimed to recognise the difference between vision (as a merely chemical/physiological/electrical process) and visual perception (which entails the subjective interpretation of the human psyche) in the context of a research about the mutual influence and complementarity of the visual arts of cinema and photography. The photographs, sized 24”x36”, mounted on aluminium are printed on pearl glossy paper, in order to accentuate the perceptive depth, the way dominant/recessive colours and lights/shadows play a role in each shot, and the several details that seem to appear more numerous every time the images are approached. The long and delicate procedure involved in the production of these works (single, long exposures of projected feature films) make the images remind of colour block paintings, as if they were the result of layered soft and long brush strokes of paint on canvas. However, at a more attentive examination, they conceal a plethora of latent images which come alive depending on different variables such as the point of view and viewing distance of the audience, how external light sources reflect on the pearl surface of the print, and the familiarity that the viewer has with the feature film used as a subject. Despite being non-representational images, these photographs still send a dense message to the audience, and are the tangible result of a work of visual synthesis performed through the medium that best imitates our sense of sight: photography. However, it is interesting to notice how photography isn’t of course able to emulate the “perception” side of the process of visual elaboration of a film, which human beings perform through their differently wired brain and psyche, making their “personal synthesis” of a film subjective, arbitrary and extremely varied.