The video Indifférences follows the structure of a slideshow: alternating 15-second images with 7-second black screens. The images that flash by depict natural and urban landscapes: high-rise buildings, single-family homes, fields, cemeteries, infrastructure, forests, abandoned sites… The photographs were taken at dawn, at a time when the sun has not yet risen but is beginning to cast a bluish light, and when the streetlights are about to go out. The use of tungsten slide film accentuates the artificial quality of the image.
Alexandra Gillet
Exploring natural and urban spaces is akin to a solitary, intimate stroll, in the seclusion of a time not yet overtaken by the hustle and bustle of human activity. The abandonment of real space and the formal fragility of these images create a sensitive time and space where anything becomes possible in terms of the poetic exploration of a realm of desire. In the exhibition space, it is important to note that these images are projected on a human scale in a completely dark room, which compels the viewer to maintain a certain physical proximity to the screen. The rhythm of the sequence alternates between a static image and a black screen. The transition from a black screen to an image occurs via a cross-fade, while the transition from an image to a black screen acts as a pause. This temporal difference, however, is not experienced in purely chronological terms within the exhibition space. The black screen, which is logically shorter, creates the effect of a temporal expansion equivalent to the duration of the image. This temporal expansion invites the visitor to adopt a very particular state of mind, allowing themselves to be carried away by the associations between the images. The spacing between two images is neither meaningless nor senseless. It becomes a breathing space within the series, but also a space for each visitor to project their own mental images.
Larys Frogier, exhibition catalog Echos – Graphies, Rennes: La Criée centre d'art contemporain, 2001
Production : La Criée centre d'art contemporain, Rennes
