The site-specific fresco created from obliterated found photographs raises questions about our relationship to images and the passage of time in our world that is implanted and submerged by the visual. Most of our immediate information is the result of taking in sensations provided by images, particularly those from our screens. Their uncertain veracity and their alienating omnipresence, causes us to oscillate between a zest for life and loss of confidence, distress and hope. Working in a dialectic between destruction and creation, the installation is conceived as a ‘freeze frame’, contemplative and aware, evolving at the frontier of representation. Through a poetic and minimalistic approach, the work explores memory and invites the visitor to actively participate, by stimulating their imagination.

Pictures: Moussa Cheniguel