Déjà vu

Series of photographic diptychs, various dimensions.
During our journeys we like to take pictures. We soon realized that we were often shooting the same subjects. We located the common photos and we are presenting some of them as diptychs. In the photographic diptychs of the series Déjà vu, the “joint” element concerns the editing, the joint decision. Each diptych comprises two images, one by each of us. We both photograph (almost)the same subject. The diptychs, which we call “déjà vu,” act like a mirroring on each other’s gaze. There is a paradox in the title, in that this feeling of the “already seen,” the previously experienced, occurs simultaneously, on the spot and more or less consciously. The déjà vu is triggered by something relatively unimportant; what matters is the feeling itself, the momentary destabilisation of normality it produces, the vertigo. It suddenly feels as if you have touched the tip of an iceberg of memory.