Sébastien Hildebrand
Run baby run - Installation - 2010
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 12
Installation
In my practice, I am particularly attached to the relationship between man and the machine. This first revealed itself in paintings, then in interactive installations and again in photographic projects. The work is always a partnership and the machine imposes constraints that the human tries to take in with a real physical and temporal implication. The question of the fabrication of the image occupies therefore an important place in my practice, particularly that of media-related images. This mix of images from the media and the man-machine relationship was to lead progressively towards the high-level sportsperson, fine-tuned for competition, the results of which are in the headlines of our media. On the project Run Baby Run, the accent is on the race towards a target: the finishing line. A technical device is used for these disciplines where extreme chronometric precision is required. These are cameras that shoot an image 1 pixel wide (materialising the finishing line) at a speed of 2000 images a second. It is the assembling of these fine lines that offer a reading of the photograph in time. Run Baby Run is a series of photographs taken with this camera. It presents the everyday situations of people running after time: traders, soldiers, consumers, firemen, travellers... S.H.
Chef operateur, Sylvain Briend Chef electro, Jeremy Courmont Assistantes, Charlotte Cochelin et Chloé Petitjean
