HUNTING IN THE DARK

These 2 photos were made by Bernard Voïta and you should have a very good look at them. It’s all about the perspective, they actually remind me of Felice

Mechanical Reproduction

Source: An Investigation Into the Reappearance of Walter Benjamin | Hazlitt

www.metropolism.com/features/the-museum-is-history/english

Jürg Lehni

Source: Jürg Lehni — Apple Talk

 

Source: Marcius Galan Inside the White Cube 2013 | White Cube

The artwork ‘‘Projection’’, presented within the framework of the exhibition Les Séparés, is directly linked to these reflections. Through the use of two 16mm film projectors, placed back to back, which project nothing apart from light rays, one onto a wall, the other directly onto the viewer, David Lamelas confronts and engulfs the latter in a sculpture of space. A space that is at once physical, luminous, cinematographic – also amplified by the noise of the film running – and mental, in which the viewer is led to imagine his or her own images to project onto the screen.

 

Indeed, it is a question of both formal and conceptual ‘‘separation’’. The gap between the apparatus, the cinematic atmosphere and its result, which is merely light without an image, produces a gripping mise en abyme : David Lamelas shows a fiction of the fictional apparatus that is the cinema par excellence, at the heart of which the viewer becomes actor.