TEN SECONDS UPON A TIME (Video installation, silent, 10s, random diffusion once a day, 2007)
(FR)
10 secondes arrachées au temps, 10 secondes pour un face à face.
L'image en mouvement n'est jamais plus hypnotique que lorsqu'elle se fige. Une image tremblante, indécise, fragile. Une image offerte une seule fois par jour pendant dix secondes.
Apercevoir l'image et accepter que l'on ne puisse la retenir. À peine esquissée, déjà évanouie...
(EN)
Ten seconds snatched from time
Ten seconds for a face-to-face.
The moving image has never been more hypnotic than when it freezes. A trembling, indecisive, fragile image that is offered only once a day for ten seconds. It is not an arbitrary duration, it is the duration of the video, the duration of the events.
An image that one can miss. The fact that it may not be visible is perhaps its main stake, and being able to see it leads to frustration...
To see the image and accept that it cannot be retained. Barely sketched, already fading...
(FR)
10 secondes arrachées au temps, 10 secondes pour un face à face.
L'image en mouvement n'est jamais plus hypnotique que lorsqu'elle se fige. Une image tremblante, indécise, fragile. Une image offerte une seule fois par jour pendant dix secondes.
Apercevoir l'image et accepter que l'on ne puisse la retenir. À peine esquissée, déjà évanouie...
(EN)
Ten seconds snatched from time
Ten seconds for a face-to-face.
The moving image has never been more hypnotic than when it freezes. A trembling, indecisive, fragile image that is offered only once a day for ten seconds. It is not an arbitrary duration, it is the duration of the video, the duration of the events.
An image that one can miss. The fact that it may not be visible is perhaps its main stake, and being able to see it leads to frustration...
To see the image and accept that it cannot be retained. Barely sketched, already fading...