As it is well-known, we live in a culture of high-speed production, including fast
distribution and presentation of photographic images. I’m looking for another
relationship with the photograph. Usually, we look straight through a photo
toward the scene that is depicted. Instead, my work often carries the possibility of
making this ‘transparent’ medium receivable itself.
I made some of my artworks for public space, others are with and about photography.
The connection between the two types of work is to be found in the themes of
memory, absence of (photographic) images, seeing, reflection on seeing, and its residue:
what should be physically present, or, what do we need to see in order to generate a
memory?
I can’t think of another medium with a more immediate relationship with memory than
photography. So far this notion has resulted in projects like the vernacular photography archive, Afterimages, Dark Dunes, Retracing, and The Robert F Kennedy Funeral Train.