credits : Marine Pistien
2023 – 2024 VERTIGE ou Le poids des images
Conception, photos, videos : Marine Pistien
Collaboration, model, dancer and dramaturgy : Chloé Saffores
Performers : Aurélie Gosset, Chloé Saffores, Marine Pistien
Residencies and exhibitions : Le Chant du Voisin, Marseille ; ENSP École nationale supérieure de la photographie, Arles ; Le Couvent, Marseille ; Espace Niemeyer, Paris
The image has weight, the image has value, the image has meaning, the image offers direction, the image falls, the image flies, the image splits, the image folds, the image becomes a body, the image becomes a reflection, the image captures, the image pretends.
pile of paper
blank page
vertigo
the image as matter
‘As an artist and image worker, I’m overwhelmed by the overabundance of images, by our widespread subjection to them (and to screens) to the detriment of our fundamental right to dream and imagine. […] How can I serve the image? I try to empty the image of its substance, to twist it, to bend it. The image is prismatic, it’s everywhere, all the time. The image is invasive, it fills up storage space, it fills up my mental space, it takes up too much space. Which leads me to want to move the image from the virtual world intothe real world. What does it matter if the image becomes a volume in space, with a materiality, a weight? I’m working on making the weight of a computer image physical; how much does 1MB weigh? I’m trying to produce a weight conversion table from kilogram to kilobyte. How much does an image weigh? How much space does it take up in real space? Images that fly through space, images that float, images that stand upright, images that are stretched, folded, light, heavy, thick, flying, nailed, trimmed, unfolded, torn, recomposed, superimposed, suspended, rewound, printed, ventilated, drawn, vibratile, posed, scrolled, choreographed, moved, balanced, turned, overturned, straightened, exposed, imagined, exhausted, activated, paraded, cancelled. What happens when we stop looking at the image?’ Marine Pistien
How can we develop a relationship with the image that is more haptic than optical?
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Le poids des images
‘Cette installation explore l’accumulation des images, leur présence omniprésente. En les déployant, elles créent un espace où l’image devient une pause poétique, une rupture dans l’agitation visuelle qui nous entoure.’ Marine Pistien
→ Extracts from the residency at ENSP and Le Couvent
→ Website
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