DECEPTION MALFUNCTION (2017)
Re-enacting a topographic documentary series about my hometown I had made in my youth unexpectedly turned into a journey through time which in its course raised more questions than providing answers.
The re-enacting’s subject this time would become the neighboring city’s automobile plant. Being this inaccessible monstrosity of a site, highly technical but yet so organical, it had since ever been a symbol to me for the unknowns in life.
After a conceptual circumnavigation of 3 hours/8 km/20.000 photos I built a time-lapse movie from it. The failing play-back of it gave birth to these images that very corresponded to what had happened to me in the past.
Technically the overly exhausted computer produced the wrong anticipations of the probable next image in the course of the time-lapse. Now and then it got stuck and showed images with, what we would call today, glitches.
Yet these distorted images revealed those discrepancies between my memories and the on-site reality. Some pictures even appear to have gotten haunted by the old ghosts, which I, contrary to my expectations, did not come upon anymore during my trips home.
Exhibition: “Scopophilia Art Festival”; Cinetol, Amsterdam
Images of the series
Analogue roll of film, ~1989