The snapshot unmasks what is elided in the composed and framed mise-en-scene of the classical painting or photograph. Objects may be unfocused, cut and sliding out of the picture; the appearance is of a fragment from a larger view, and indicator of the passage of time. The frozen moment that should make the object present […]
Reflections 01 – Photographic installations
To reflect upon the ethics of memory is, at first sight, a puzzling task. This is so because memory is not in the first instance an action, but a kind of knowledge like perception, imagination and understanding. Memory constitutes a knowledge of past events, or the pastness of the past. Paul Ricoeur’ Spanning almost thirty […]