Kelvin Haizel
things and nothings, 2017
In things and notings, Kelvin Haizel explores the question of the image as object. His installation consists of recycled car and motorbike parts (doors, headlamps,indicator lights ...), a video displayed on an upward-facing screen, and a video projection. The doors and headlamps are covered in adhesive sheet printed with images of car accidents. The various lamps are illuminated, wired together like a garland traversing the exhibition space, while the blink and tick fill the space in which the two videos are shown without sound. The first presents a grid of multiple images of gloved hands moving now quickly, now slowly, over a board game. The second is a film in slow motion. The installation as a whole plays on the oscillation between object and image, seeking, in underlining the objective nature of the image, to undermine its authority: slowed -down, the film is decomposed into independent images, while backlit images are headlamps...Photographs and videos are freed of their subjection to the subject or of their utility as pictorial supports, to take on an immanent function.
Cedric Aurelle, the author of the artists' notes.
Afrotopia,
11th edition Rencontres de Bamako
Biennale Africaine de la Photographie.
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| Kelvin Haizel "things and nothings" at Afrotopia, 11th edition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. 2017. Photo Courtesy Dawit Petros and Kelvin Haizel |
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| Kelvin Haizel "things and nothings" at Afrotopia, 11th edition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. 2017. Photo: Dawit Petros and Kelvin Haizel |
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| Kelvin Haizel "things and nothings" at Afrotopia, 11th edition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. 2017. Photo: Dawit Petros and Kelvin Haizel |
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| Kelvin Haizel "things and nothings" at Afrotopia, 11th edition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. 2017. Photo: Dawit Petros and Kelvin Haizel |
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| Kelvin Haizel "things and nothings" at Afrotopia, 11th edition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. 2017. Photo: Dawit Petros and Kelvin Haizel |
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| Kelvin Haizel "things and nothings" at Afrotopia, 11th edition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. 2017. Photo Courtesy Dawit Petros and Kelvin Haizel |
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| Kelvin Haizel "things and nothings" at Afrotopia, 11th edition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. 2017. Photo: Dawit Petros and Kelvin Haizel |
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| Kelvin Haizel "things and nothings" at Afrotopia, 11th edition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. 2017. Photo: Dawit Petros and Kelvin Haizel |
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| Kelvin Haizel "things and nothings" at Afrotopia, 11th edition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. 2017. Photo: Dawit Petros and Kelvin Haizel |
