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 was lost in the image.

Over a period of time, and when in contact with light and dust, the film always contains an image, even without the intention to produce a photograph. Replacing what is lost 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 reconstruct what others have lost, the unknown turns into space for improvisation.

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