Staging Silence (1)

After experiencing many similar public places, the artist found that they collectively lingered in his memory as abstracted, archetypal spaces. These formed the starting point of ’Staging Silence’, an ambiguous piece featuring an eclectix mix of ridiculous and serious images, the concrete and fantasy. The amateurish quality references slapstick, while the absence of colour invokes the insidious suspense and latent derailment of film noir. Silent and unpeopled environments are articifically ’staged’, allowing the spectator to project himself as the lone protagonist. Anonymous arms appear and disappear, manipulating banal objects, scale representations and artificial lighting to create alien yet recognisable locations. Inspired by the images themselves, Serge Lacroix composed and performed the accompanying score.