Lucas Leffler
Analog Collapse - Installation - 2023
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 25
The project questions the industrial decline of the Kodak company in the 2000s, after the advent of digital technologies.
It takes as its starting point the year 2007, marked by the industrial collapse of the brand and the release of the first iPhone, launched by Apple a few months earlier.
The installation combines an immersive film shot in a former Kodak factory with obsolete iPhone screens used as supports for photographs.
By exploring the ruins generated by technical developments, the project invites us to reflect on the materiality of image technologies and their inclusion in an industrial model based on the notions of progress and obsolescence.
At the crossroads of genres, Lucas Leffler’s work invokes documentary and experimental film and flirts with fiction. The artist willingly assumes the position of investigator, both to research the technical aspects of photography, demonstrating an unquenchable thirst for experimentation, and to trace the thread of history, unearthing astonishing forgotten mythologies. The history of the places he investigates is as much a part of the work as his experiments with the medium, whose limits he pushes beyond its two dimensions.
Lucas Leffler lives and works in Brussels. He holds a bachelor’s degree in photography from HELB (Brussels, Belgium) and a master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium). His work is represented by the Intervalle (France) and Lee-Bauwens (Belgium) galleries and has been exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne, Switzerland), FOMU (Antwerp, Belgium), Hangar Photo Art Center (Brussels), Eleven Steens (Brussels, Belgium) and the BnF (Paris, France). In 2022, he won the Picto Lab – Experimenting with images residency, and started the course at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.
