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erased / ink on instant film / 62 x 99 mm / 2018-2024

– The messages are there somewhere, present in those visions to be deciphered –

Covering the subject, giving up something specific to listen to a broader, generative background noise, to look for something else.

Looking without understanding what I am looking at: the memory which is an image is no longer relegated to the memory of the place taken, even if it cannot be erased, it fades over time and rather coexists in a new fantastic space.

I lose the sense of proportion and perspective by obscuring the representation of the particular, that place becomes many places, many worlds.

(Archipelagos surrounded by a black sky and a dark sea, isolated and swallowed up, disturbing. Visions en plein air of a night that becomes sidereal, cosmic cold, while I float suspended in the void waiting for the oxygen charge to run out. The screen of a probe, alien to this world, is detecting the safest place to land. A drone flies over the remains and rubble of a civilization swallowed up by banks of antimatter or overturned by a thermo-nuclear war. Some bulldozers operated by bureaucratic orders eradicate the memory of a building used as a social center, to build a globalized discount store…).

And you? What do you see?

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