”In this series, Dé-Réalité, I attempted to communicate the feeling of movement through the images that remained in my memory. I wanted to create a visual equivalent to the fleeting mental images I have held onto from my travels. How does memory work? It erases, defaces, selects, and reconstructs from events. Technically, I developed a process that recalls memory: using my telephone to re-photograph vacation pictures on my computer screen. In this way, I create a new space, like a memory, using different methods and croppings so that the original photo is now only the “punctum.” Gaëlle Abravanel
Gaëlle Abravanel (b. 1968) is based in Paris. After working for ten years in fashion photography, she chose to return to her first love: art.
FESTIVAL
Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs
Dé-réalité, Gaëlle Abravanel
April 2 – 18, 2013
Espace Saint Rémi
4 rue Jouannet
33000 Bordeaux
France
