« PORTRAIT, 3 minutes, 6 years»
Video installation – variable dimensions
Duration: 6 years
Véronique Durazzo | Didier Ducrocq – 2018
Video installation – variable dimensions
Duration: 6 years
Véronique Durazzo | Didier Ducrocq – 2018
The screen has become the contemporary mirror. This work explores the boundary between surface, illusionistic image, and time. Such a questioning is only possible through an excess of illusion and the radical slowing down of time. These two conditions create the framework for the emergence of art, for plunging into the tragedy of human destinies, and for opening up a perception of the invisible.
First activated during an exhibition in 2018, this piece, originally conceived as a three-minute work, now unfolds over a period of six years. Displayed on a high-definition video monitor, it presents the portrait of a woman aged 94. A countdown clock indicates the time remaining in days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Once launched, it continues relentlessly until the ultimate date of the woman’s hundredth birthday, whether or not the work is exhibited. At that precise moment, the video ends definitively and can never be reactivated.
In order to achieve this extreme deceleration of the video flow, an artificial intelligence system generated more than 145,000 intermediate frames, which succeed one another through an almost imperceptible morphing.
In the confrontation between technological advancement and lived time, which entity will ultimately prevail in defining our final reality?
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