Cuts and Shifts - after Potteau, 2019

16mm, Kodak 7266 Tri-X Reversal Film, black and white, 2:39 min. Still images

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Cuts and Shifts - after Potteau, 2019

Cuts and Shifts - after Potteau, 2019

16mm, Kodak 7266 Tri-X Reversal Film, black and white, 2:39 min. Still images

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Cuts and Shifts - after Potteau, 2019

Cuts and Shifts- after Potteau, 2019. Still image.

Cuts and Shifts – after Potteau is based on a series of ethnographic photographs collected by Jacques Philippe Potteau at the Museum de Paris between 1855-1869. Here, the ambiguity between the scientific and artistic gaze is implicit in the images themselves, as both aspects are provided simultaneously—the ethnographical study and the artistic photo series. In Cuts and Shifts – after Potteau, the portraits are manipulated by digital cuts, which are randomly chosen and then displaced so that actual shifts in the photograph occur. Each state of the shifts is filmed with a 16mm camera. The image fragments move quickly around, subjecting each portrait to chaos and coincidence. Thus, the two supposedly discrete states—scientific study and artistic photo series—are both deconstructed and intertwined, confronting the limitations between the two states of gazing.

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Cuts and Shifts- after Potteau, 2019. Still image.