Déjà vu and Other Histrionics
Photographic print on art paper (13cm x 20cm)
(9) 32cm x 42cm framed diptychs
2016
A photograph is a lie about the truth.
A transtemporal dialog with French colonial photographer Pierre Tacher, questioning the context and intentions of his work and other historical documents. I have extracted his portraits of Senegalese from 1908-1912 and inserted them into my architectural photos of Senegal in 2016. I focus on stairways, thresholds and doors as transitional spaces, between public and private, freedom and slavery, and ethnography and pornography.
This is historical fiction.
Collection of the Getty Museum
Installation views
site: former Mauritanian governer's mansion, Saint-louis, Senegal
