Reverse logic (In Camera)
Artist:
Steven Pippin
Date:
2014
Medium:
Photograph
Materials:
Colour photograph on aluminium
Dimensions:
76 x 66 x 5 cm
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Domain:
Photographies
This work is the final stage of the artist’s experiment. Here, the weapon is placed inside the camera. With the help of a device consisting of two mirrors, the image is captured just as the bullet passes through the camera’s lens. The camera’s reflection can be made out on the left-hand side of the work. Steven Pippin’s 3 D Breach of 2 Dimensional space (In Camera), Deepfield, and Reverse logic (In Camera) are a form of artistic hara-kiri. In the photographic series Point Blank, he reveals the swan song of his shooting devices: the images are made at the very moment of the camera’s destruction by gunshot. Deepfield (2010) is his first attempt to shoot a bullet directly into the centre of the lens. In keeping with his work from the 1990s, Steven Pippin creates works whose result is not the fruit of a pre-established aesthetic construction, but the image of an image-making device. The elementary photographic technologies which he creates himself give his pictures the air of early snapshots, but there is nothing melancholic about his approach. Rather, it points to the proliferation of images and their means of production, as well as to the iconographic implosion that awaits us.
Exhibitions
Exposition Café Mater
Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris (France)
from 20 Jun 2022 to 31 Dec 2023
Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris (France)
from 20 Jun 2022 to 31 Dec 2023
Steven Pippin : aberration optique
Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
from 14 Jun to 11 Sep 2017
Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
from 14 Jun to 11 Sep 2017