Imagina Pictura
First Photograph: Niépore Niepece, Point of view taken from a window of Gras in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, 1826.
Shots:
This series is in the continuation of my work on man, the notion of space, of territory, of the border, of transparence and wandering.
The photographs are taken in decors with a male model.
I insist on the mise-en-scene through a relation between the model and the props: I tell a story between fiction and documentary.
After scouting and work on initial sketches: the mise-en-scene is carried out within constructions.
The high angle shots will also be used like a window, which sometimes placed high up, offers a vision “from above” of the world.
In photography and cinematography the eyepiece is also like a “window”.
Notes:
In this series, I develop the following concepts on the window:
The relation to the exterior, the interior space, of opening and of closing: from one universe to the other.
Front - back lit.
Light – dark.
Too many images, disappearance of the image.
Fragmentation of space, division of a window, the image is decomposed.
Redistribution of functions, of the frame, this part belongs to the sky, this one to the earth, it cuts up the space and distribute the roles.
Through the window, time enters (night, day), the seasons, penetration of natural and artificial light, the view on life, the exterior projects us into our universe, “I don’t have the same thoughts in the winter as in the summer when I look at a landscape”
I think about the person leaning out a window (Gérard de Nerval) “The window replaces the theatres and the promenades” (Flaubert)
Window on the sky, view on to the world.
The window is part of the element of construction, and yet does not exist in the sense of this construction.
Around something that exists materially and something that does not exist.
A void, transparence.