Camera obscura

Camera obscura (2005) copyright artist(s) and courtesy argos

Artist(s)

Year

2005

Duration

00:05:20

Installation

Original format

Digital Betacam

Color

b&w

Languages

Spoken: Engels GB, Frans

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For ‘Camera Obscura’, Lorand made a night-time recording from a moving automobile, along an empty and unlit road, projected the dark images against a wall and filmed them again with a hand held camera. In a single, quiet motion, the camera zooms in on the projection (we initially see it reflected on the floor of the space) so that we viewers are drawn into the image in a kind of illusion of infinity. We hear a young girl and an older woman reading aloud a suggestive text about light and dark, seeing and being seen. The two voices are not in dialogue. Perhaps it is the same character at different stages of her life.

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