Damien Beyrouthy: Fuyantes

Title:

Fuyantes

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):



• Damien Beyrouthy

Symposium:

• ISEA2020: 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Medium:

Street photography and documentary fiction

Artist Statement:

Fuyantes institutes a dialogue between two archetypal figures of the archive: street photography and documentary fiction. The work presents a diptych of images organized in friezes, the assembly of which is based on the principle of anadiplosis (using a word or an image at the end of one sequence to begin the next). At the origin of the variations are two source images. The first is a photograph of a street in Beirut, Lebanon, found by a search engine when the word “Hamra” is entered. The second image, taken from episode 1 of season 2 of the series Homeland, shows armed men on the same street, a scene that was in reality shot in Haifa, Israel. The visitor sees the images move, can drag the friezes and click ‘restart’ to generate a new sequence.
While the elusive (fuyantes) and parallel lines must meet infinitely, the spatial or semantic meeting of the two friezes is constantly being pushed back. In fact, one will notice that the street images, often quite uniform, refer to shots of the same type while the series drawn from fictional images is more heterogeneous because it borrows from different genres (video games, cinema, television). Finally, it should be mentioned that some images may offend.

Website:

https://damienbeyrouthy.com/fuyantes/

• https://fuyantes.researchexhibition.org

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Category:

• Art Exhibition
• 2D Art
• Internet Art
• Unknown / Other