Depuis
2000 -série Frère(s) - j'interroge l'actualité au travers de la représentation
sacrée pour créer cette sensation d'éternel recommencement, un passé
qui remonte au niveau du présent et un présent qui se dilue à son
tour dans le passé. Je poursuis aujourd'hui cette recherche en m'appuyant
sur l'évolution de ma technique qui me permet de mieux appréhender
cette notion de rencontre par le biais de la transparence et la lumière.
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Since the year 2000, I've examined daily events to create my work, and through a religious presentation I give the feeling of the eternal rebirth of the past returning to the present and diluting again to the past. Pursuing this research while developing my technique allows me to apply these to transparency and light |
Explications. J'avoue
m'intéresser moins à l'enregistrement du réel qu'à sa manipulation
et à ses images " imaginées ". En définitive, c'est toujours le regard
que pose un artiste sur son époque qui est essentiel. Je me considère
comme un véritable consommateur visuel : photographier la rue, les
musées, télécharger le web, scanner les magazines, puis retoucher,
gommer, reconstituer, recadrer, remonter… bref mettre en scène. Je
poursuis une recherche dans laquelle l'appareil photo, le scanner,
l'ordinateur, l'impression numérique et le choix des supports interviennent
comme moyens au même titre que la peinture, le métal, la terre. La
manipulation informatique est devenue une nouvelle façon de voir la
réalité qui permet de rendre l'illusoire réel et même le réel illusoire.
La mémoire de l'ordinateur, les nouvelles technologies de reproduction
et la contamination des disciplines artistiques donnent une liberté
de création jusque-là inimaginable. Mais le plus intéressant, c'est
que la substance même de la réalité s'en trouve changée. Le " vu "
est moins sûr que jamais ; les nouveaux matériaux de la création questionnent
d'une manière inattendue la question du déjà-vu. Hayat (catalogue "Quid novi ?" 2003) |
Explanations. I
am more interested in manipulating reality and its "imaginary" images
than in recording reality. An artist's view of his time is essential...
I consider myself a really a visual consumer: I film the streets and
museums, download the web and scan magazines. At this stage: I touch
up, erase, reconstruct, reframe and put together again the visual
image. I pursue a work in which the camera, the scanner, digital printers
are my choice of materials, then intertwine them, just as paint, metal
and clay. Working with computers has become a new way of visualizing
and observing by transforming the imaginary into reality and reality
into imaginary. Indeed, the computer's ability to reproduce and to
propagate artistic research and study has given us the freedom to
create, which was inconceivable in the past. But the most interesting
aspect is that the substance of reality itself has changed. The "seen"
is less certain than ever. The materials used to create "now" question
the matter of "déjà-vu" in an unexpected manner.These
latest technical methods, however, can engender a cold and flat universe;
so I try to integrate depth and density into matter. I use direct
printing on two slabs of plexiglass, superimposed and separated by
a broken or shifted stretcher (as if there were a far more important
distance in the supposed reality). The slabs are enhanced by sprayed
paint and are screwed from one side of the frame to the other, thus
creating the illusion of sculptured dimension breaking away from flat
surfaces. The importance being what takes place inside.My
work can be compared to the contemporary "neo-pictorialists." Using
a brush and scraper, they try to give each photo a sense of being
unique. But, I take my work to a new level by introducing a play of
lights and transparencies, with a juxtaposition of images. The effects
of shadows upon another and different light variations allow multiple
readings in which illusion and emotion vary every moment.
In the beginning I instinctively chose analogues images, if only for their harmony of composition and their created sensations. I tried not to identify them, their meanings - aversion, tenderness, revolt - are revealed progressively as they are created. By focusing and modifying color I give a contemporary aspect to the magnificence of baroque masterpieces. Inversely, contrasting the actual image until you bring it to the boundary of abstraction and relying on my view of reality rather than technology, means having to re-evaluate and transform. I then try to super-impose, using the "one concept," without fracturing the analysis or the representation, in spite of the centuries that sometimes separate certain actions. This new " time space " concept is neither the "decisive instant" concept of Cartier-Bresson nor the "out of time" concept of Bustamante and Wall, but could be the " recomposed-time " concept.My work can be explained by my personal itinerary - (Judaism, exile), classic art study (Beaux-arts), media culture observation, and professional and technical experience, also through my work as a creative director in advertising is also an influence.Concerning the principle theme, one can say that it is the examination of a history of oppression. Christianity has been granted a dominant, non-temporal (timeless) role, far from the original suffering. The church has been preaching for the last twenty centuries how man should feel ashamed of his body (while never ceasing to show it), thus demonstrating an aversion for anything too human. But Jesus/God is also made of flesh... he felt our torments - desire, abandonment, and solitude. My images of the present express that part of human suffering without trying to give it a spiritual dimension. My intention is to take away the sacred aura of the non-temporal (timeless) and universal images of Christ by diluting it to reality and elevating it to a universal level. From the beginning of the 20th century, the religious and symbolic imagery has often been revisited, condemning violence, racism and sexual discrimination. What I'm interested in is the creation of a new language, elaborated by the union of distinct moments and techniques that question reality.Questioning front and obverse of a medal - sacred/secular, past/present, expression/ repression, affect/intellect - I try to give a new vision about the doubts and fears of our world. Confronted by two obvious facts - nothing will ever stop oppression and nothing is determined by chance - I prefer to ask the most eternal of all questions - What is new? Hayat (Traduction Gail Mazigh) |