Act of Failure #18

The photograph is proposed as a weak object because of its correlation between visibility and invisibility. This suggests a de-construction of visibility. The word "de-construction" is used intuitively, intending to make an analogy that opposes to build which is not to destroy, but to disassemble pieces little by little as a method of analysis. We are left with the photographic image that is understood as a way of representing the real which in this case is canceled. If the print is the origin of photography, as Jean Marie Schaeffer says, fixed in a support to collect information, what happens when this information is distorted? What we are left is with the photographic code. This is what ...View all