“24 images projected per second is the principle of cinematography, the child of photography, but whose crafts rarely intersect.
This exhibition brings together twenty-four photographs, which if put back-to-back in the cinema, would represent a fleeting second, chased by the next. Like music, cinema is an abstract art. A cinema film, unlike a photographic print, has no material existence. It is our viewer’s brain that allows it to exist. A film is a mental image that summons up an ancient Chinese painting, that has never been clearly seen in its entirety, but in the form of a reel being rolled and unrolled, only ever showing its pattern through a tiny slit. A painting that had no decorative function at the time but which in a way prefigured cinematography in its action.
But cinema is also the dark room where films are projected, a place that from adolescence onwards allowed me to escape society in order to better understand it and project myself within it. A genuine refuge which deepened my vision of the world.
The filmmakers Chaplin, Keaton, Lang, Ford, Hitchcock, Antonioni, Lynch or Hawks were my teachers and their films still inspire me. The exhibition of these photographs pays tribute to this cinema-world that is so close to my heart; a little window that might just let you jump into my world, for more than just a second…”
In association with Vu’
