Video: Installations that didn't exist. "Pseudo-Documentation" by David DiMichele
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Photos by David DiMichele seem to be ordinary pictures documenting another art event. But only if one of the viewers is interested in the captured exhibition and wants to visit it on their own, he will be very disappointed. Because none of the installations shown in the images existed in reality. The "Pseudodocumentation" series is a photograph of what was not really there.
The photographs by David DiMichele depict imaginary art installations in which the author explores scale and perception, blurring the lines between truth and fiction. Pseudo-spectators find themselves in an extremely unusual environment: huge rooms filled with shards of glass, piles of salt, blocks of melting ice, scraps of tree bark … Against the background of these monumental installations, human figures seem extremely vulnerable and defenseless.
In fact, all these "installations" took place not in museum halls or abandoned warehouses, but in the studio of David DiMichele. For each photo, the author created a reduced model, a detailed diorama, and then - a matter of technology. Correctly exposed light, shooting at the right angle, a number of professional techniques - and in the final shots it is difficult to suspect any catch.
"Pseudo-documentation" is a study of the very act of art perception. Most often, people get to know art objects not in person, but by studying them from reports and photographs. And in our case, viewers can, with the help of the same photographs, see even an exhibition that has never existed in reality.
The photographer lives and works in Los Angeles. At the beginning of his creative career, he was engaged in the creation of installations, and since the late 1990s he switched to photography. According to David DiMichele, his Pseudo-Documentation series was inspired by his previous experience with installations, his passion for monumental art and gallery architecture, and his love of abstract forms.
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