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Mille-Feuille temporel TIME SHEETS Digital prints of scanned photographic film laminated to black PVC plates, 41.5 × 28.5 cm, 2019. Only large rectangular holes dug with a excavator in a former disused military base. The Lizé troop HQ of Montigny-lès-Metz in France, is nevertheless 90 hectares of exploitable surfaces. It has taken about three and a half weeks for the archaeologists to investigate everything. By approaching one of these excavations, I could see different sequences of layers of earth, a bit like a pile of sheets seen in cross- section. The deepest layers are the oldest. It is a beautiful allegory : the buried past is extracted in the present to be remembered in the future. Next to each hole was a mound of earth that could be observed. A scenery of miniature mountains whose erosion was done with excavators and backhoes. They have done the work of time. Very often, when places full of history like this one are going to be destroyed or redeveloped, excavations are allowed. Real negatives and positives of soil that I captured on silver support. Eventually, there is a lot of similarity between this archaeological approach and mine. I also subtract matters from a place to keep an accurate mental picture. Thus I explore places that has been already investigated. It is an archaeological mise en abyme because I am the witness of a recent human activity which is in itself testified by an older activity.
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Copyright © 2021 · Tous droits réservés · Anthony Visconti
Mille-Feuille temporel TIME SHEETS Digital prints of scanned photographic film laminated to black PVC plates, 41.5 × 28.5 cm, 2019. Only large rectangular holes dug with a excavator in a former disused military base. The Lizé troop HQ of Montigny-lès-Metz in France, is nevertheless 90 hectares of exploitable surfaces. It has taken about three and a half weeks for the archaeologists to investigate everything. By approaching one of these excavations, I could see different sequences of layers of earth, a bit like a pile of sheets seen in cross- section. The deepest layers are the oldest. It is a beautiful allegory : the buried past is extracted in the present to be remembered in the future. Next to each hole was a mound of earth that could be observed. A scenery of miniature mountains whose erosion was done with excavators and backhoes. They have done the work of time. Very often, when places full of history like this one are going to be destroyed or redeveloped, excavations are allowed. Real negatives and positives of soil that I captured on silver support. Eventually, there is a lot of similarity between this archaeological approach and mine. I also subtract matters from a place to keep an accurate mental picture. Thus I explore places that has been already investigated. It is an archaeological mise en abyme because I am the witness of a recent human activity which is in itself testified by an older activity.
Copyright © 2021 · Tous droits réservés · Anthony Visconti
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Mille-Feuille temporel TIME SHEETS Digital prints of scanned photographic film laminated to black PVC plates, 41.5 × 28.5 cm, 2019. Only large rectangular holes dug with a excavator in a former disused military base. The Lizé troop HQ of Montigny-lès-Metz in France, is nevertheless 90 hectares of exploitable surfaces. It has taken about three and a half weeks for the archaeologists to investigate everything. By approaching one of these excavations, I could see different sequences of layers of earth, a bit like a pile of sheets seen in cross- section. The deepest layers are the oldest. It is a beautiful allegory : the buried past is extracted in the present to be remembered in the future. Next to each hole was a mound of earth that could be observed. A scenery of miniature mountains whose erosion was done with excavators and backhoes. They have done the work of time. Very often, when places full of history like this one are going to be destroyed or redeveloped, excavations are allowed. Real negatives and positives of soil that I captured on silver support. Eventually, there is a lot of similarity between this archaeological approach and mine. I also subtract matters from a place to keep an accurate mental picture. Thus I explore places that has been already investigated. It is an archaeological mise en abyme because I am the witness of a recent human activity which is in itself testified by an older activity.
Copyright © 2021 · Tous droits réservés · Anthony Visconti
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Mille-Feuille temporel TIME SHEETS Digital prints of scanned photographic film laminated to black PVC plates, 41.5 × 28.5 cm, 2019. Only large rectangular holes dug with a excavator in a former disused military base. The Lizé troop HQ of Montigny-lès-Metz in France, is nevertheless 90 hectares of exploitable surfaces. It has taken about three and a half weeks for the archaeologists to investigate everything. By approaching one of these excavations, I could see different sequences of layers of earth, a bit like a pile of sheets seen in cross- section. The deepest layers are the oldest. It is a beautiful allegory : the buried past is extracted in the present to be remembered in the future. Next to each hole was a mound of earth that could be observed. A scenery of miniature mountains whose erosion was done with excavators and backhoes. They have done the work of time. Very often, when places full of history like this one are going to be destroyed or redeveloped, excavations are allowed. Real negatives and positives of soil that I captured on silver support. Eventually, there is a lot of similarity between this archaeological approach and mine. I also subtract matters from a place to keep an accurate mental picture. Thus I explore places that has been already investigated. It is an archaeological mise en abyme because I am the witness of a recent human activity which is in itself testified by an older activity.
Copyright © 2021 · Tous droits réservés · Anthony Visconti