Syndromes - Agence VU'

Syndromes

Text : Tina Merandon
Publisher : Auto-édition
Date : 2001
Book-taille : 27,50 cm x 32 cm

« In the business districts, the costumed, stressed, pressed beings – “the executives”- who respect, apply and perpetuate the pyramidal rule of the game, do not always have themselves the perception of the alienation to which they are subjected; sweet barbarity to which they adhere. Dressed in polyester, evolving in non-places of glass and steel, confined in spaces lined with acrylic, surrounded by furniture with coded and significant materials and sizes, absorbing synthetic food, these beings always human, sometimes passionate, sometimes overwhelmed, seem to be nothing more than video icons emitted by the Hertzian transmitter of a crazy and silent TV channel. Yes, these repressed or softened bodies are only images. They tipped over into virtuality. However, they behave willingly like images.

They conform to an image of themselves. An image that they wanted. An image that is imposed on them, but an image that cannibalizes them. And when they relax, they become blurred. Pallid specters wandering in absurd modernity, they can suddenly disappear, vanish while spinning in an ether more sizzling than the neon lights of their world. And they know it. Their environment, their material, their accessories, their relationships, their expressions are electric. The tension is always diffuse, often visible, almost palpable. A spark might be enough for their circuits to ignite. For their fuses to melt ».

Francis Mizio