About decline, 2007/2008

- 94 photographs of different sizes
between 38 x 53 cm and 100 x 140 cm

Here is a world which is worn out, tense and shattered
but which does not die.

The raw material is my day-to-day life, my own surroundings of which I am the observer. In these images I seek to transform banal reality into an enigmatic and tragic universe. In this photographic diary bared to an atmosphere of drama, the world is a place where the human being is under pressure. In this state of tension, which threatens to break at any minute, there is a notion of strain and at the same time
an underlying sense of release. Worn-out people subsist in
an adipose landscape of saturated colours, while the treatment of
the declining light announces an end that never comes. Frequent use of contre-jour and over exposure changes the perception of things.
Subjects are swamped by a harsh light, hemmed in by an environment that has become illusory, revealing them in a latent physiological intensity. We are jolted from the floating alienness by coarse blacks and whites that bring us back to a more realistic and documentary perception. I describe an unsettling twilight world where night will never fall. It isn’t an agony but more like a twilight eternity.

About decline is the work of a year that weaves in and out of subconscious situations, lost souls, creating a fiction rooted in my daily life.