martin bonadeo | texts

Can a slide projector really alter space perception? In this context one deals essentially with light: to make it go through a translucent image to impregnate it into an illuminated surface. In general one works on a white and smooth screen especially designed to receive different images, just like white canvas. Trained eyes know that it is a screen but this light when directed towards other spaces can change the meaning of a scene. The corner between wall, roof and beam leaves its architectural meaning behind to convert itself into a more complex spatial-temporary element during the projection. The ghostly presence of the projected photo grows into the projection surface and transforms itself, offering a new image which combines past and present in a very particular way and suggesting a new kind of space. When vision is being threatened, the other senses start to acquire a higher level of importance in order to compensate for the eyes deficiency.

Buenos Aires, October 2001

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