Untaken

The term “archive” can be defined as the location and the structure for safeguarding, storing and ordering objects or documents considered important. Therefore « the archive is the precondition for something like history even being able to take place. » [1]

The connection between the photography and the archive is one the central parameter that has governed the uses of photography since its emergence till our post-photographic present. Photography used not as a document or a representation, but as an image, a mark or a sign of « what has been » (cf. Roland Barthes).

Absence, emptiness and no-incident trace and mark.

My interest in that issue is materialized through the process of recording events, which have not occurred or have not been captured. Therefore, I realize a taxonomic exercise of not suffered experiences, an attempt of recovery rather than a representation.

Through collecting the last segments of the film, which, for mechanical reasons, have not been correctly exposed to the light, I’m doing an intent of recuperation and archival of what have not taken place, the undone, the unfilled.

Representation of one’s personal lost experienced is recreated in a second time by the reader/spectator through the relation between a taxonomic quotation and the abstraction.

[1] Boris Groys, Under suspicion (Unter Verdacht. Eine Phänomenologie der Medien, Munich, 2000, p. 9).