Exp(l)osition: "Obscura Camera": French version, the original version.
The work presented on this site started in 1991, little after a series of exhibition in the ex-USSR
and Western Europe. The beginning of the numerical era came and interrogate again the industry of
the cinema and its supports considered as traditional (film, camera, screens). It had become obvious
that the advent of the numerical video and the Internet were going to open many prospects in the handling
of image, and their supports. This work is thus registered in reference to films which affected me,
often by their dramatic, emotional, and aesthetic intensity. It is a setting in abyss of the retinal
persistence, because the principle is "freezing the frame". The idea is to "freeze" the projection on
the screen to allow the awakening of the witness of the place where the emotion is formed when one is
in position to watch a film.
These painted screens formalize direct filiation between the cinema and painting, and thus show the nature of the bonds
which were woven in the unconscious between these two forms of expression of the image.
These painted screens formalize direct filiation between the cinema and
painting, and thus show the nature of the bonds which were woven in the unconscious between these two forms
of expression of the image.
Vincent Legault (Biography)