Translation of Lost images

HD video, 3’16”, variable dimensions

Departing from an archive of overexposed or not exposed photographic films, collected from darkrooms and family albums, the work aims to rebuild through sound what is lost in the image. 

Even without the intention to take a photograph, the film always contains an image in the presence of light and dust over a period of time. The process of replacing what is lost, however, is both a process of memory and of imagination. Where the archive is familiar or known, the sound is used to locate and recreate the right place and time of the image. Before the incapacity to reconscruct what others have lost, the unknown context turns into space for improvisation.
 

Group exhinition view, ‘Not a Sphere but an irregular shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid’, Amsterdam. On the left: work by Kevin Siwoff. On the right: Belly, by Amy Wright