Le silence va plus vite à reculons #1, 2020

The artwork pledge

• AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
• INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Abuse of Power
• Archive
• Arts and Politics
• Communications technology
• Conceptual Art
• Dadaism
• Death
• Douglas Huebler
• Drone
• Dualism
• Europe
• Fiction
• Figurative
• France
• Future
• Installation
• Landscape
• Léon Spilliaert
• Mediatization
• Memory
• Military
• Neuilly-sur-Seine
• Nuclear Weapon
• Offscreen
• Paris
• Photograph Manipulation
• Photography
• Portrait
• Power Structure
• Research
• Social
• Social Marginalisation
• Spectacle
• Surveillance
• Time
• Urban
• Video
• Video Art
• Video Surveillance
• Violence
• War

About this artwork

The image shows a group of men and one of them holding a slogan that translates “Don’t look at the camera. Pray.” Everything else in the photograph has been covered with white lines by the artist. Through this simple gesture of erasing, a narrative can be reinvented.

Le silence va plus vite à reculons is a photographic series using press images of violent events or public demonstrations where everything is erased with white lines except faces, bodies, and slogans. The title of the series is a phrase that appears in the film Orpheus by renowned French director Jean Cocteau.

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