Remote Resemblances

  • 2005
  • photo-installation
  • Durst Theta print on paper
  • 60 prints x 30/40 cm each
  • EA 5 + 1 AP
The photographs are "borrowed" by the author from "Talent Partners" Casting & Management Agency, and appropriated for the current project. They are part of a certain "applied photopgraphy" janre - casting-catalogues for the demands of the film industry.
Formally each photograph resemble an individual or group portrait of people, willing to work as extras in the movie-business. Taken out of this context, these portraits dispence free associations on the level of perception and memory, references and "accidental" resemblances with "real" persons and events from the cinema and everyday worlds.

 

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