The Time Passer
Photography series and film
Passage between heaven and earth, in an area of becoming.
In the Renaissance painting, ladders were painted for the angels (with no representation of wings at that time) could come down to earth.
Ladders are everywhere in the world, they reveal a great universality, a great dream according to myself, the link between earthly and celestial.
In French, the same word is used to say ladder and scale. The nature of the word is thus also reflected in a report to topography, space territory.
An area of transition, the intentionality of passing from one world to another.
The ladder is a passing way, a reaction, an intention.
It may also reflect the level of despair, that ladder would be an escape from one place to another.
Beck Hopelessness Scale» evaluates the despair, as a dimension of suicidal behaviour. Scale as forecasting?
Search for love, flight from a condition to a nostalgia for the infinite.
The transition from earth to heaven, a state of grace that recalls the rise or fall of angels.
Thus I do not judge, rather a daydream, which essence is to make see and feel a passage, passages which carry «psychological» man nature.
I am not trying to show clear evidence of photographic style or channelled thought but to show feelings, energies that reflect current events where people have undergone and suffered.
Writing poetry emerges by itself from the hand of a man who seeks, who questions acts and wanderings of the world and its history.
«In poetry, one just inhabits the place he lefts, creates the work which he stands, gets time by destroying the time.
But all that is obtained by breaking, detachment and denial, we do only get it for others. The prison closes immediately on the escapee. The one who give freedom is only free through others. The poet only enjoys the freedom of others».
Preface by René Char, Rimbaud: Poetries. A Season in Hell.
A taste for life, a breath of hope, without upsetting the mourning habit, just by a sublimating undertaking on the lost thing (Julia Kristeva).
Marcel Duchamp used to say that the word art was coming from Sanskrit, meaning “to do”.
This is what I try to do, transcend an idea, a thought to the subject.
We can also find a form of the wall of shame in Israel, where I lived for two years.
Starting point of my political and humanist engagement.
Being part of this event is also fighting against the other walls in the world.
Although walls are physical, they are first in the head.
My ladders are there to face them.
The physical nature of the photographic film is also a composition that looks like ladders, a black bar separates each negative, each blank in a ladder can also be analyzed as an image.
Pour cette série, je travaille en studio dont le fond est blanc, avec des modèles hommes et femmes, de couleurs différentes.
Au travers de non-représentation d’un lieu j’universalise cet espace comme un lieu en général.
For this series I work in a studio with a white background and male and female models from different ethnic groups.
Through the non-representation of a place I universalize this space as a place in general.
Models are Korean, Slovenian, Belgian, Israeli, African and Japanese
15 color prints 100X120 cm
Film (8 mn), edition of 5 copies + 1 artist copie