Series of photographic diptychs, various dimensions, 2014 – ongoing
Déjà vu is a series of photographic diptychs that act as a paradoxical game of memory, as an affirmation of mutual complicity, or as a journey diary of common life. Each diptych comprises two images -one by each of us- of (almost) the same subject. The photographs are taken during our journeys but the diptychs are created afterwards by selection. The “joint” element concerns the editing, the joint decision to trigger a common memory, to give a meaning to the trivial. The déjà vu diptychs 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, and then occurs for a second time in the editing. The déjà vu is triggered by something relatively unimportant ; what matters is the feeling itself, the momentary destabilization of normality it produces, the vertigo. It suddenly feels as if you have touched the tip of an iceberg of memory. – VASKOS
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