Each of the pictures in the Photo Opportunities series consists of a hundred views of the same place, gleaned on the internet. While searching for keywords of famous monuments on photo sharing sites, Franco-Swiss artist Corinne Vionnet found thousands of tourists’ snapshots for her series Photo Opportunities. Weaving these many photographic perspectives and experiences, she builds her own impressionistic interpretations: lightweight structures that gently float in the imaginary mist of a blue sky. She raises the questions: are we heading towards a unique point of view? Why do we all photograph monuments in the same way? Is there a dominant image before the actual experience? The exhibition delights us with the finesse of colorful pictures, close to drawings, which starting from the most ordinary snapshots give an incredible lightness to massive monuments that we have never seen this way.
FESTIVAL
Photo Phnom Penh 2015
From January 31th to February 28th, 2015
Institut français du Cambodge
218 rue 184 – Phnom Penh
Cambodia
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