Le silence va plus vite à reculons #4, 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

Faces, arms and legs are floating among crossed white lines and shades of black and gray in this photographic work. Through this simple gesture of covering and erasing, the artist reveals a narrative that remains to 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 covered and erased with white lines except faces, bodies, and slogans. The title of the series reads “Silence goes faster backwards”, a phrase that appears in the film Orpheus by renowned French director Jean Cocteau.

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