Night Exhibition
At Maison des Ensembles in Paris you'll find 3 screens attached to the front of the building. From these screens, strange, blurry faces are watching into the gloomy night.
Each photo is continually replaced by a new one, each of them seeming to portray a person, yet the images are so hazy that it's impossible to recognize any individuals. The photos can almost be seen as mere abstractions of colors, yet there is the sense of real beings behind the haziness.
The photo series is the result of artist Philip Tonda's research on personal relations existing on the internet. For the past 6 months, he's been examining the way people present themselves online, and this photo collection, abstract and representational at the same time, is the result.
The photos are based directly on images collected from peoples profiles on the Internet, and thereby explore questions of copyright and image sharing. The whole exhibition is thus a kind of archive based on images from peoples private representations of themselves. However, nobody is recognizable in the photos, so you won't find your own face up there smiling down to the viewers. But you may find a photo that is based directly on your photo.
The exhibition is only on display at night, and that ads something melancholic and mystic/unrevealed to these abstractions of isolated beings who seem to be watching into the dark of the night.
The exhibition can be seen every night/early morning from 8pm through 10am.
The opening will take place on Friday March, 25th. In addition to the work, there'll be a short music performance at 8pm as well as at 10pm.
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