Abstract
'From now on, no line of business, no fragment of our individual and collective life, elude the development and pressure of technologies. From then on, no aspect of life in society can shirk away from those intrusive looks.' Alex Turk, president de la Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) chairman of the French national Commission on information technology and liberties. I think that diver the surveillance camera from its initial function, that is to say survey human behavior in society, allow the appreciation of a second vision of it. We have then a new approach : the camera which trails crowds looses its political status in favor of a more formal vision.
I choose to make use of the camera as a full-fledged tool, like the raw material of the painter and his canvas. Even if surveillance cameras became omnipresent in public spaces, their banality leads us to forget about them, I then choose to bring them back on the foreground. To do so, I work on the relationship between public space and individual, as well as its violated privacy. Indeed, through those technological eyes, the human being sees himself become a straightforward object, a file, deprived of its humanity. It is then, by a graphic process of visual deletion, such as a spectre, that I free man from camera ownership.
