Is the image that recreates the text or is the text that redefines the image? by Tom Lisboa
The word Palimpsest derives from pálin (again) and psests (to
rub off) and refers to a manuscript page or book whose content was
erased and rewritten. It is from this concept of agglomeration and
suppression that the Palimpsests series brings up a relationship as
conflict as inevitable in photojournalism: is the image that recreates
the text or is the text that redefines the image?
Each work of Palimpsests consists of an overlaying of verbal and
non-verbal texts: the video , the photography on the background, the
written text, the brush action (which may refer to the painting
or the watercolor).
In these videos, a particular event has a published picture and text
overlaid. This is the beginning of a process where we observe someone
that, with brush and water, surrenders to a useless work: trying to
erase the text that appears in front of the image.
Each time the goal is achieved, like Sisyphus, we are taken to the starting point again.
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