BlowUp

BlowUp (2001 - present, analog color, middle format)

This work is inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie Blow-up and the ideas of Vilém Flusser. It 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? By using a very small part of the actual 6×6 negative for the prints, this aspect is intensified. 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 presented at Spéos Gallery, Paris, in October 2009.