Nicolas Boillot

installationvideo As they enter the exhibition room, visitors become unwittingly the subject of what is given to be seen. The basic principle used here is the same as in SamplTV, except that the video flux stems from a surveillance camera. The paths followed by the visitors are recorded by the camera, then images are extracted and accumulated on a loop in a spatial-temporal way. Simultaneously, the obtained images are projected onto a screen facing the visitors. This “unwinding” mirror raises interrogations as to image production and identity.

Confronted in real time to their own captive and fragmented movements, they are prompted to question or even modify their behaviour. They can try to amplify or minimize their impact on the flux, and so end up appropriating the process. As projection goes on, the rules of accumulation peculiar to the device are such that the multiple tracks left by the spectator confront and answer each other, and eventually disappear altogether.