Eva Mels

Fossils of the Future is a fully analog translation of digital images, generated or found. What does photography mean in a time when everyone can instantly create whatever image they desire?

 

The hollow surfaces of digital images are treated with the care associated with analog techniques of shooting, developing and printing. Time gets slowed down, pixels are transferred onto material surfaces, days are spent to construct one image, enriching it with the visible traces of analog process.

 

By creating an analog negative of a virtual image that does not have an original, or a print that will never look identical when reproduced, I look for contradictions, polarities and frictions in time, materials, objectivity, truthfulness and ownership. Will these manual and material techniques bring digital surfaces to life?