What's better than am exhibition about in-game photography under the stars? The Swiss are always a step ahead.
Exposition en plein air de Pascal Greco & Petri Levälahti du 17 juin au 17 juillet 2022
Lieu : en plein air, sur le Mail 2000 (voie piétonne)- Plan Les Ouates
Point de départ : Rendez-vous devant l'Espace Vélodrome
La photographie a toujours été un art centré sur la capture du monde dans lequel nous vivons. À une époque où nos vies se déroulent dans une large mesure dans des environnements numériques, un nouveau type de photographie est en train d’émerger. Le In-Game Photography est une forme d’art des nouveaux médias, qui consiste à photographier des univers de jeux vidéo. Le Covid et l’impossibilité de se déplacer a propulsé cette nouvelle pratique. Utilisant le jeu et ses contraintes comme terrain d’expérimentation, Pascal Greco a entrepris un processus photographique minutieux mais ludique, traduisant son approche de la photographie à la réalisation d’images numériques. Son travail épouse les codes et joue avec l’ambiguïté d’un paysage anonyme rendu familier. En tant qu’images numériques, elles interrogent à la fois la photographie in-game et la photographie traditionnelle, en fixant un point où les deux se rencontrent et s’entremêlent. L’exposition In game photography nous incite à regarder les jeux sous un nouvel angle. Pas comme une mission à accomplir mais comme un univers à explorer.
Pascal Greco is a self-taught filmmaker, cinematographer and photographer, living and working in Geneva. Among his most celebrated projects are Shadow, which was presented in 2017 at the LU in Nantes and at the GIFF in Geneva, a magnetic, intense and hypnotic film with actress Asia Argento and her daughter Anna-Lou Castoldi, that he codirected with Philippe Pellaud. Shadow was released in a limited vinyl edition with the film inside on a private streaming, in January 2019, on the label Pamela and Poor Records. His first feature length documentary, The Scavengers (coming soon), describes the older community living Hong Kong, with insufficient or no retirement to cover their basic needs and expenses, and who, to meet their needs, collect all day long, paper, cardboard or sagex, to resell them by the kilo at a ridiculous price. His photographic work focuses on architecture and its place in the landscape. As of today, six works of his photographs have been published. Kyoshu, nostalgie du pays (Infolio, 2007) presents moments of life across Japan. Seoul Shanghai Tokyo (idpure, 2010) brings together photographs that reveal the contrast between modern architecture and the dilapidated architecture of these three big cities, RATRAK (Verlhac, 2012), with Gabriel Mauron, reveals the ski resorts, at night, with the machine’s beam of light. No Cliché (Jane & Jeremy, 2013) offers Polaroids of architectures lost in the vastness of Iceland. Hong Kong - Perspectives, Prospectives, Typologies (Infolio & Mccm Creations, 2018) describes the typology of Hong Kong’s atypical and unique architecture. In April 2021, Greco released his book & film Hong Kong Neon (Infolio & Mccm Creations, 2021), which he produced between 2012 to December 2019, which ended his diptych on Hong Kong. His work was exhibited internationally at Espace abstract, Lausanne, Musée Alexis Forel, Morges, Guillaume Daeppen Galerie, Basel (solo) and La Ferme de la Chapelle, Geneva and in Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (group) among others. Gis work was featured in several publication, including The Guardian, Vice, Monocle, Fast Company, Bloomberg CityLab, GUP, Polka and Fisheye.
LINK: Pascal Greco, Plan Les Ouates
