ELEONORA PACIULLO Works Editorials Info
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The idea of realism has been crucial for every medium, from painting to photography, and now virtual imagery. The latter plays an ever increasing role in our visual experience of the world, due to a large number of electronic devices we use everyday. The relation we have with images is drasticly changing in the digital era: the interaction, use and re-use, instant access and production.
The photographic series questions our relation with virtual images by creating analog photographic memories from a trip I did in Los Angeles, wandering in GTA (videogame taking place in Los Angeles). My desire as a photographer is to explore these somehow familiar environments without physically going. My attempt here is to get the identity of these virtual places that both reflect and contribute to the Americana - as Jean Baudrillard states: “America is neither a dream nor a reality, it is a hyperreality. [...] The American city seems to be born from cinema. In order to grasp its secret, one must not go from the city to the screen, but from the screen to the city.”
The photographic medium is used for its capacity of leaving a valuable trace and memory. The analog photographs shoot with the Mamyia RZ67 give to the screenshots of a virtual Los Angeles a materiality and therefore constitute a new form of reality.
The text reproduce in the book follow the same artistic approach, that is to get to the essense of America today by the spectrum of this parallel reality that can be found in videogames.
The photos consequently produced question the viewer about their nature and veracity, bringing a new perspective on the future use and role of photography.
Circulations, Paris, France
