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Project 05 - Chapters
In this project I wanted to create a setup to a series of pictures which will imply the existence of a narrative and explore how pictures can tell stories. The idea for this piece came when I first encountered “A view from an apartment” by Jeff Wall. What fascinated me by that picture was that once viewing it, it was very natural for the audience to start formulating concepts on what is the story is behind the characters, and how does that story relate to the current state of their environment. While in “A view from an apartment” the characters create a story for the picture, I attempt to let the picture create a story for the characters by overlaying boundaries across the images creating a comic book like effect, thereby hinting in what order the audience should read the picture. But does the segmented presentation of the images limit this will of free interpretation; is it playing with the audience, forcing them to put images into a narrow context? This also depends on how one distinguishes on what constitutes as a border or not. Even though there are indeed very visible borders going through the pictures, this does not mean that the pictures were cut even though it gives the impression that they were. There are four photographs here yet the panel that overlays them can give the impression that there are 10, yet the piece can be easily seen as a single picture. |
