Bruno Nuytten
Mille images pour Le Fresnoy - Installation - 2017
présentée dans le cadre de l'exposition panorama 19
Installation
In a year spent at Le Fresnoy, during which
I had the privilege of accompanying the projects
of eight young artists (and a few more),
I attempted, by using my smartphone (iPhone SE)
as a notebook, to reconstitute in 1000 images my
first retinal shocks (those of my early childhood).
These images are so many questions about
what is said to be real, or rather what I’ve learnt
with time and a certain difficulty to define as
such. They are all rectangular and vertical,
slightly enlarged to fill all the surface offered
by the iPhone (screen shots) and are spread
out over ten digital, fifty-five inch screens (100
images per screen).
Each image lasts 7.2 seconds, which, when
added together, should spectators be crazy
enough to want to see them all, would last as
long as a feature film (two hours).
In this jumble of images I didn’t search for any
logic, meaning, narrative, markers of scale or
temporality, but a series of raw screen shots
(shapes, materials, colours, shadows and lights)
taken in all kinds of circumstances, at night as in
day, since November 2016.
A kind of sensitive, archaic and wild topography
of the new-born.
Lastly, for the sake of authenticity, I deliberately
limited my technical interventions (exposure,
contrast, colour) to the application integrated
into the iPhone + procam + afterlight
occasionally (no Photoshop).
