composer | director
Images Énervées
audio visual installation
work-in-progress concept collaboration with photographer Sofie Knijff
various installations, still under construction
First try out edition: 4-channel installation at Les Rencontres d'Arles photo festival
Arles, France. July 3 — Aug. 31, 2017
Second try out edition: 3-channel installation at the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery,
Seattle, USA September 3 — October 13, 2017
Saskia Fernando Gallery
Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 18 — February 7, 2018
For a specific photo series called "Tales", photographer and friend Sofie Knijff invited me to help her create a video installation with sound, based on her portraits. Looking for a way to grasp the playful yet dark content of the photo series, together we set off inventing a new audio-visual language. An unusually tight and elusive connection between photography and film was born.
In a way it reads like a graphic novel, with separate frames simultaneously explored by the camera, in a rather voyeuristic way. Yet the audio composition, the various layers of sound, some of them field-recordings, some out of other worlds, create a perception more like watching film.
These portrayed children live in their own fairy tales. As they pose for the camera, you can see their minds and even their bodies wandering off, into a deeper thought, a private place, a moment in time not far from here.
I try to create a notion of what these private moments and places can be; not by knowing the children's’ thoughts, but by reliving their possible fantasies in my own mind. Going into dark forests, scavenging in the bushes, gazing at the stars, following unknown paths, and, as you go along, trying not to make too much sense of it all.
Installation view, Seattle:
Images Énervées is still in an experimental phase. We are showing try-out versions to an audience where possible, and still testing the options for installing it.
Some work in progress video material: