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BlowUp

Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-up and the ideas of Vilém Flusser, this work questions the relation between photography & reality. Taking a photograph always means to choose, to take something out of its context. But how true stays a photograph when you zoom in and all forms and shapes slowly become indistinct? Dimensions are lost and texture becomes more prominent than the photographed scene. This in turn leads to the question of what we regard as real.

The series was shown at Spéos Gallery, Paris, in October 2009.