Blow-Up, 1966.
Writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni
Reality, perception, illusion and appearance: how information is passed along and made visual.
Perception vs. reality.
Truth vs. fiction.
Source material cannot be trusted. There is a degeneration of passed along information, a misplacing of origin and a questioning of memory.
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Project Abstract:
Overlapping cultures are held captive by the availability of too much information, a flipping of fragments: arbitrarily gathered pieces of information presumed to belong to the same puzzle- the wealth of information available on the Internet and the fact it can be assembled by anyone with any notion of how things are related to one another. |
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Walid Raad b. Chbanieh, Lebanon, 1967
The collection of documents archived by the foundation of the Atlas Group, which Raad founded, is a mixture of found and constructed evidence whose authenticity and authorship can never be fully trusted.
In blurring the line between historical fact and fiction, Raad investigates how history is written and archived.
The works “function not as emblems of fact or scraps of evidence to support the assertions of history, but rather as traces, as symptoms, as strange structural links between history, memory, and fantasy, between what is known to be true and what is needed to be believed.”
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