201 cartes postales vidéo mobiles (2010)

I borrowed a cellphone from one of my colleague at the office, Marie who makes video installations herself, looping cellphone recordings of her performances on monitors, a Nokia 3600 Slide 3.2 Megapixels dating back to 2008, with a video resolution of 640 x 480 and a capacity to record five consecutive hours of video, or 5,000 photos ... I had the idea of making a series of romantic tableaux which, combined, would create a pictorialist stroll through Paris, an aimless wander, a projection of interior visions and of an intimacy confronted by the disposable contemporary technologies of communication and exchange, as exemplified by the cellphone, icon of our never-ending consumption ! Actually I don't know if my intentions are clear, but perhaps the images will speak more concisely for themselves...