ˌtranzlə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃ(ə)n,ˌtranslə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
technical
noun: translocation; plural noun: translocations
the movement of something from one place to another
When travelling, the mind has a chance to wander, while the body is being safely transported. The mental impressions of the journey, are put together as a puzzle by glimpses of images that mix themselves in a diffuse photomontage of memories. It is a subconscious process, much like with the automatisms that the Surrealists cherished.
Translocation is a body of work, consisting of photos taken with an iPhone in panoramic mode, but using it in “the wrong way”. Image fragments are put together by the software, into a whole picture, but in an aleatory and accidental manner. Those images do not represent the decisive moment, but the accumulation of different moments and different spaces.
Similarly to the automatic drawings or triptographies by the Surrealists and Dadaist, this digital photography process is not consciously controlled.
The resulting, glitched images are not only a reflection on time, space, change, mutation, transformation, friction, control, but they also challenge the very essence of the photographic process and our mechanisms of memory and perception.
