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Babysitting a Shark in a Coldroom
par Kelvin Haizel
Our present theme « to dream, to imagine » brings the concept of ‘virtual time’ to my mind. And the image that goes with it is artist Kelvin Haizel’s « Babysitting a Shark in a Coldroom » (2018) photography series.
For me the image, with all its paradoxes, impossibilities and contradictions, speaks to the radically new laws of visuality, of perception, and of cognition by which our digital paradigm sets for us. Truth is vital and necessary. But the experience of the world today, especially in terms of images, renders the classical truth/false binary inadequate.
The digital image (whether pictorial, sound, gestural, or in any other codified form) connects us to infinite dimensions in terms of time and space. Therefore to dream or to imagine in a world such as this could be a very powerful and emancipatory gesture.
Kelvin Haizel, Babysitting a Shark in a Coldroom II (BASIC II)
series. No. 2, 2018, Inkjet print on Dibond, 92.6 x 139.7cm.
© Kelvin Haizel.