Friday, February 25, 2011

Out of Many Tourist Snapshots, One

Conducting online keyword searches for monuments, Swiss/French artist Corinne Vionnet culled thousands of tourists’ snapshots for her series Photo Opportunities. Working with a hundred photographs of a single monument, the artist weaves together small sections of the appropriated images to create each layered, ethereal structure. Famed landmarks appear to float gently in a dream-like haze of blue sky. Each construction espouses the "touristic gaze", its distorted visual referent functions as a device for memory transport by funneling many experiences into one familiar locale.

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