The Photographer Left, They Told The Truth is a triptych of live installations: BOX, HAND, and PRINT. Charlotte Bouckaert combines photography and performance in an exploration of seeing and imagining. What happens when a photograph transforms before your eyes? The presence of a performer (HAND), a viewer (BOX), and the interplay of print and projection (PRINT) keeps the image in motion. The Photographer invites you not only to look at a photo, but to experience its creation. Through this triptych, Charlotte Bouckaert investigates how images come into being and questions whether they can ever truly be “finished.”
Charlotte Bouckaert is fascinated by photography and often engages with the medium in her work. The fact that a photograph freezes a moment in time intrigues her, and simultaneously provokes resistance. In her performances, she manipulates photos so that attention is drawn not to the frozen moment, but to the moments before and after—or the image is given new life in surprising contexts.
The Photographer Left, They Told The Truth will be presented as a complete triptych for the first time at Festival Beyond the Black Box.
BOX
In the space stands a box.
A silent exchange unfolds between viewer and invisible performer, while images appear and fade in a continuous stream.
HAND
A projected hand lies in the space.
A still image is never truly still. Forms shift and transform, raising the question whether an image can ever come to rest.
PRINT
A print hangs in the space.
What happens when printed photographs collide with live images? Past and present meet in a layered visual encounter.
