Scanner #2
to carve and illuminate
The idea that the light can both carve and illuminate a body is fascinating.
WHITE backgrounds are default neutralizing elements in product, museum and anthropological documentation. Think of Avedon or early 19th century specimen photography. This set of images are different to the ones produced in scanner #1. These are about erasing and disappearing in a dance. It's owning a movement. Expressing a walk into white.
I'm drawn to WHITE in film media. Famously in Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger than paradise" –visiting Niagara Falls during a snow storm defeats the experience of a scenic trip - all the expectations of a road-trip culminate in a freezing whiteout. George Lucas's dystopian "THX 1138" – Robert Duvall's character is imprisoned in a prison of white infinite space with no dimension.
In contrast, with directors like Holden or Bergman, BLACK is a force a thing pushing or bending action. White is delicate and yet is still has a power - or even a violence.
This is about the lights relationship to the subject. Erasing and rendering at the same time. The light's agency and randomness keeps me returning again and again to working in these sites.
The performances are figures seeking a location and an escape.
