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GILLES BALMET
TRANSLATION
2005
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AN EXTRACT OF THE VIDEO
Translation is a nine-minute
sequence, which can be used as an alternative
space in an exhibition. I see it as a buffer zone, an absorbing black
hole, both
fascinating and disturbing. It proposes a series of appearances and
disappearances of contrasted visual elements based on a group of sequences
shot on tracing screens, which were laid out on my windows and recovered
the luminous projections of the bateaux-mouche on the Seine riverbank.
Once I have worked on these details, they act as pure light particles,
similar to pixels or cathode snow, which has often been used in the
history of video art. These luminous translations appear on the left
hand side of the image. They become more dense thanks to the magic of
naive special effects and move on to a psychedelic phase, multiplying
the visual elements and moving them to the right hand side of the image
until they disappear into digital particles. This succession of sequences,
which are all different even though they follow a same scenario, is
accompanied by a troubling soundtrack, which I composed in 2004. It
specifies this strange feeling of absorption and superficial negativity,close
to the dark aesthetics of the eighties.
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