Jugnet + Clairet
Let's switch again / San Acacio, 2005-2013
Video installations, 5 to 17 screens
6'17", loop with sound
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LET'S SWITCH AGAIN / SAN ACACIO This video installation evolves around a video shot in 2005 in Santa Fe (Camino San Acacio), before we moved to New Mexico, and then...
LET'S SWITCH AGAIN / SAN ACACIO
This video installation evolves around a video shot in 2005 in Santa Fe (Camino San Acacio), before we moved to New Mexico, and then set up in Brussels in the beginning of year 2013. It is based on our last shots of televisions being switched off, shots which were unused until then.
As of 2001, these screen captures would then take part in our travelling ritual across South-western America. From town to town, from one motel to another, we put every room in complete darkness, we unfolded the ironing table and put the camera on the ice bucket that we would stabilize with a matchbox supplied by the motel. Lying on the bed, we successively turned on and off the television for uninterrupted one-hour sessions. Before complete blackness, the light decomposed itself into primary colors, the colors of the R.G.B. color mixing.
Then intervened the « derushing » of the videos, before the selection of certain images and their analysis in order to create big paintings.
With the Switch series, we focused on that fugitive moment in which the image is layered into the light, compressed until it becomes one luminous spot. At that particular moment persists a memory of the image, an afterglow.
In Let’s Switch Again / San Acacio 2005-2013, the focusing device is a little different as we borrowed a tripod and a camera from one of our friends. We filmed by day. As we were unable to obtain complete darkness, for the first time our own image was reflected on screen. The presence of our friend Nic made us unveil to him what we were doing, which explains the origin of the soundtrack.
We have selected, shortened and put this basic material back together to create seventeen sequences of Switch, each one played twelve times, all summing up to a six minute and seventeen seconds loop video.
This video installation can be made up of 5 to 17 screens (video projections or monitors).
J + C
Translated by Alexandra Berry
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