Creation 2023-24

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The idea for POLAROÏD arose from listening to the radio. I was listening to a programme with Marie Richeux, in which a short text called POLAROÏD was read. A collection of these texts was then published. These texts never failed to intrigue me; I was fascinated by them. They often spawned images and specific imagery. In this collection, the preface captured my attention. It is a text by Georges Didi-Huberman in which he reveals his questions regarding the meaning of a literary Polaroid.

‘To focus’ on the very texture of things. To approach, lean in and give the minuscule its due place. Also, ‘to polarise’ the relationships that each thing has with the things around it: move, change the play of light and give consideration to spacing.

I asked myself what is a theatrical polaroid?

Experiences with students and interns confirmed interest in this approach, stemming from my experimental obsessions and preferences.

Fascination in this specific photographic technique, its appearance, relative immediacy and chromatic blend, that we see permeating an organic space and time, evokes theatricality in the image. In performing arts, the creative moment is the present. The creation of an image in a polaroid is also present and tangible.