Time and Space – A Fictitious Reality
Time and space coincide, trapped inside memory they become intertwined. The past invades the future, and the line between fiction and reality is blurred. Memory creates an image of the past, based on the present, but it is a distorted biased vision of reality. What is real and what is fiction? Whether abstract in a dream, or concrete, in a photograph, every image represents a certain reality, and photography is a reproduction, the preservation of a moment in time. The authenticity of any image can be manipulated, what appears real, can be an invention, pure fiction. Inspired by the work of Grégory Chatonsky, intrigued by his piece, Traces of a Conspiracy, I was inspired to create my own story, told through a series of images and text, both fictional and real. This work is a commentary on the facility of photography to capture and imitate reality, and the ability of the photographer to manipulate it. In Grégory Chatonsky's, Traces of a Conspiracy, he creates the illusion of a conspiracy based on a series of images and text. It is a story, but is it true? Time and space are irrelevant, undistinguishable and arbitrary. In this work, I have taken two sets of images, two separate realities and created a situational story. It is an interpretation of the past based in the present. The accompanying text is from a journal, and the images are both past and present. The are two separate sets of images. The first is a series of images taken within the confines of my studio, and the second is a series of images shot in Corfu, Greece. The past has resurfaced in a new space. The story could be true or false. I have taken reality only to create a real fiction.
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