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The Day Before, Star System, New York, September 10, 2001 _ 23:59
2004
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil
Photography
169,7x147,4 cm
impression jet d'encre
The project The day before_Star system include images of the night sky on the eve of historical events. To achieve this, he uses software that enables him to replicate a constellation at a given time and place. The photographic series, The day before_Star system, is a series of 12 photographic images that represent a map of the sky on the eve of a military bombing. The work shows what the populations of a given place could see on the eve of their death the day before the bombings of Guernica, Dresden, Caen, London, Baghdad, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Sarajevo… and here: New York.
Influenced by the political overtones of Picasso’s Guernica, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil explores images with a political meaning. The focus of his work is the night sky as it appeared before major events. Using software, he reconstitutes the constellations of a given day and place. The photographic series The day before_Star system features a dozen photographs depicting a map of the stars as they appeared the night before a military bombing. These works depict what the inhabitants of those cities might have seen the night before they died, on the eve of the bombings of Guernica, Dresden, Caen, London, Baghdad, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Sarajevo…and here: New York.
The project The day before_Star system include images of the night sky on the eve of historical events. To achieve this, he uses software that enables him to replicate a constellation at a given time and place. The photographic series, The day before_Star system, is a series of 12 photographic images that represent a map of the sky on the eve of a military bombing. The work shows what the populations of a given place could see on the eve of their death the day before the bombings of Guernica, Dresden, Caen, London, Baghdad, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Sarajevo… and here: New York.
Influenced by the political overtones of Picasso’s Guernica, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil explores images with a political meaning. The focus of his work is the night sky as it appeared before major events. Using software, he reconstitutes the constellations of a given day and place. The photographic series The day before_Star system features a dozen photographs depicting a map of the stars as they appeared the night before a military bombing. These works depict what the inhabitants of those cities might have seen the night before they died, on the eve of the bombings of Guernica, Dresden, Caen, London, Baghdad, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Sarajevo…and here: New York.
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil
France
Born in 1968
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (born 1968) is an artist of vigilance. Since the mid-1990s he has been working to reveal the invisible structures informing our relationship to a reality that is always already mediatised. He tirelessly probes the production of the image, considered in its political space. Visibility/ invisibility, luminosity/ darkness, memory/ forgetting, what we know/ what we think we know, evoking without showing, saying without relating—these are some of the markers for grasping these works that give formal expression to the codes that organise the flow of images.
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Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil
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