Distant paradise
Subtitle: Wilmes & Mascaux
By: Christine Wilmes; Patrick Mascaux
Contributors: Maxcaux, Patrick, artist
Publisher: Arp Editions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bruxelles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9782930115191
Description: Wilmes & Mascaux's images have a curious ability to visually depict paradoxes - rendering silence deafening and making noise inaudible. Exploring territory in the way they do is tantamount to implicitly questioning concepts of time and space, using a range of techniques including photography, video and sound. Their images - whether still or moving - lend articulation to space, much like the sound and silence that accompany them. Taking as their starting point images that depict the tangible reality of man-made wastelands, the artists probe the transience (or the pretension) of a civilization whose abuse of the natural world doesn't speak in its favor. As though, in these territories at the far edges of cities and along borders, where decay appears to go unnoticed, everything is allowed, everything is possible - including a precipitous return to a state of ruin. And yet, their images are neither despairing nor depressing.