The image is composed of strips of light agitated by an imperceptible movement creating slight displacements, a visual and aural tension. In this representation oscillating between quasi-fixity and near-mobility, the striped image is structured around a double axis, a world of divisions between shadow and light, mat and frame, limit and infinity, outside and inside, closing and opening of the field and the abstract landscape.

Hiding behind each tape there is perhaps a face, a landscape or a shape to be discovered or not within these slight discrepancies. This hypothesis of invisibility and illusion, of the thing to be revealed beyond the strip of light, beyond the very surface of the image (which happens to be a body of water) only assumes its full dimension in the elongated period of contemplation, a suspended, transfixed time.

Stéphanie Moisdon

Translated by Miriam Rosen