Latences

2022
Installation
15 framed pigment prints 10x15 cm, picture stands, flashlights, mirror. 

Fifteen small format prints face a mirror towards which the light sources are turned; its manipulation allows for the light to be reflected back at the prints. However, the disposition of the prints prevents a full view of all images and it is necessary to keep moving in the space to have access to them individually. Questioning the act of investing energy into a movement that might not produce the expected result, the work offers to slide in latency. Latency is here an extension of the latent image; the moment in chemical processing that precedes the apparition of photographs on a light-sensitive surface, when it is not yet certain that the energy put into the making of images was fruitful. It is an invitation to engage in small gestures that (might) lead nowhere.