WALL was conceived in 2016 as a way of reimagining the project Sound of silence, a long-term photographic collaboration with my two brothers. Boxes of prints and hard drives were gone through, images were selected and arranged on a studio wall in various formations. Although they remain portraits of the same two people, the different paper types and sizes, printing methods and ages of the photographs gave a heterogeneous quality to the final collection. As a record, a large-scale photograph was made. It includes information about the space in which the work was realized and the process carried out there.
When viewed as a whole, the parallels and discontinuities circulating in WALL flatten out. It’s as if the histories pertaining to the original images were reset when the shutter clicked, marking the moment at which they were collectively inscribed into an autonomous photographic space. As a mise en abyme, this new photograph is nonetheless forever connected to the images it contains. The movement that comes as a result of these variations sets a rhythm for understanding the different levels of the work.