The pictorial works of the “collectif_fact” are based mainly
on photographs which the artists themselves take specially for their purposes;
the finished products, however, are digitally processed. The artists alter
spatial relations: volumes become planes or lines, space is deconstructed.
Given that the process of digital montage remains clearly visible, the works
have an unreal aspect and the images partly recall video games. Outside
and inside spaces seem familiar yet strangely different. Each project explores
new relations – with a direct reference to the communities and spaces
by which people are surrounded.
For the installation in the enter room the artist-trio photographed details
of the architecture. Then they isolated the spatial elements and hung the
individual pictorial planes one behind the other in the room – the
window panes step out of the frames, the frames out of the lintel. This
process is more reminiscent of a drawing of an explosion, which here is
staged spatially. We thus experience the room in a completely different
way, our attention being directed to the details of the surroundings. Our
experience is that of an arranged, a construed world. New links between
the individual elements can therefore be conceived and new spaces invented.
Text by Eveline Suter