Anywhere you were

I’ve always felt attracted by the “contact sections” in the classified announcements of newspapers, magazines or websites. The way one is offering or projecting itself in such evocative appeals fascinates me. We expose our desires of encountering; wishing to find the one who could complete us, who could fill this gap.

Seeking a partner, a confidant, any affinities or friendliness, or maybe simply looking for being perceived, we reveal the intrinsic human aspiration of communication and empathy. The promise of reciprocity and shared life.

My work doesn’t focus on the transmitter and its message nor on the fundamental and universal human longings but on the mode those messages have been submitted, perceived or self-identified.

Therefore, I play with the “significant” imprint from our own experiences expectations and individual quests that we, as hypothetic models, are projecting.

In that way, I create an announcement devoid of meaning – through a software generating random texts – that I publish in the contact section of a classified announcement column.

I end the announcement by suggesting a date, with a precise time and location, where the alleged interested should come over. Thereby, I create a place, allusive to this metaphysical state of searching, where ones can find what it’s looking for.

At the suitable time and place I come up.

I am not interested in the facts by themselves, but in the representation and the allegory of the search, the waiting and the meeting. Capturing the moment in which the “call” is taking place, I photograph the subjects found there, I’m doing the spectator, the true receiver, becoming a part of the meeting. I’m consummating it.