Balancing Acts
France
2024
In the past (nearly) 200 years, photography has become quotidian. At once technology and artistic medium, photography is also implicated in economic, political, and ecological systems at a global scale. Fig Docher contemplates this tension and questions their personal relationship to photography. How can we make the image sweat, crumble the interface?
A composite, Balancing Acts is a video on photography, a co-contamination of citations, a knotted length of film forgotten in a chemical bath – critical metabolism through sampling, mashup, keying, and superposition.
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About the artist
Born in 1997, Fig Docher lives and works in Geneva (Switzerland). With a degree in art research and cybermedia from the CCC-RP at the HEAD – Genève, Fig Docher works with
video, performance, and text, using hyper-contemporary processes such as compositing, mashup, and digital collage to interrogate materiality, labor, and representation in photography.