Neither Heavy Nor Fragile began with a simple question: what is the weight of an image? This initial inquiry immediately opened onto a reflection on the material and phenomenal conditions of appearance. As the work developed, the question shifted and eventually condensed into a more radical form: what is the weight of light?
This installation is rooted in my attempt to manifest both my frustration and fascination toward the image and what it is so often reduced to: its surface. I wanted to give it a form that tends toward three-dimensionality while gently stripping it of reference. The image is no longer merely representation; it becomes a surface-event, a trace of contact between light and matter — an image I now treat increasingly as a textured space rather than a subject matter. Therefore, images of caves (a twelve-million-year-old limestone cavity), sedimentations, minerals, matter in changing states, or undefined views of stones that almost look human, juxtaposed with pieces of glass carefully chosen for their textures, sizes, and colours, create an ensemble functioning as fragile thresholds where the photographic image meets material reality.
Within the installation, my questions take shape through relationships of balance, tension, and fragility: a discreet cast shadow of glass, images that seem on the verge of slipping away, fragile objects stabilized by precarious points of contact.
Neither Heavy Nor Fragile is thus an attempt to think of the image as a field of forces, where the visible is always in a state of becoming something else, and where appearance is inseparable from the matter that carries it. The work does not propose answers. Rather, it reflects my proposition as a momentary suspension of my own anxieties and yet, fascination, in front of the precarious balance of the world that surrounds us ; an experimental field in which different experiences of light, weight, and manifestations of time attempt to find a temporary equilibrium.
In doing so, the installation echoes the Nietzschean question: why is there something rather than nothing?
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