Paris Photo 2021

Human being perceives relief and locates himself in space thanks to the coordination of his two eyes. This simple assertion is at stake in the Télé-vision series, which is conceived as a representation of seeing in the form of a photographic portrait. In the manner of a stereoscopic vision, in which the combination of two images is essential to the apprehension of space and volume. Each photograph embodies the point of view of a single eye, both for the viewer and the model. The entire series thus proposes four similar but unique portraits, presented in pairs, in the image of the gaze that is cast upon them. By placing the viewer in front of the decomposition of the gaze, the series underlines the way in which the omnipresence of images modifies our relationship to the world. The transmission of sense experience through words is slowly replaced by a truncated two-dimensional world constructed by images.

Human being perceives relief and locates himself in space thanks to the coordination of his two eyes. This simple assertion is at stake in the Télé-vision series, which is conceived as a representation of seeing in the form of a photographic portrait. In the manner of a stereoscopic vision, in which the combination of two images is essential to the apprehension of space and volume. Each photograph embodies the point of view of a single eye, both for the viewer and the model. The entire series thus proposes four similar but unique portraits, presented in pairs, in the image of the gaze that is cast upon them. By placing the viewer in front of the decomposition of the gaze, the series underlines the way in which the omnipresence of images modifies our relationship to the world. The transmission of sense experience through words is slowly replaced by a truncated two-dimensional world constructed by images.

Somniloquie consists of a photograph and a series of vinyl records whose fragile engravings on dub plates fade as the audience listens to them. The vinyls are recordings of someone talking in her sleeps.
With Somniloquie, it is parapsychism that the artist puts to contribution. The image represents a curious scene: a young man listens, by means of a headset connected to an imposing tape recorder, a Studer-Revox PR99, to the words, captured by a microphone, that are pronounced by a woman who sleeps two steps away from him. Somniloquy has an artistic past: the experiment of hypnotic sleep, carried out in 1922 by Crevel, Desnos, Péret, and told by Breton in Les Pas perdus.

Somniloquie consists of a photograph and a series of vinyl records whose fragile engravings on dub plates fade as the audience listens to them. The vinyls are recordings of someone talking in her sleeps.
With Somniloquie, it is parapsychism that the artist puts to contribution. The image represents a curious scene: a young man listens, by means of a headset connected to an imposing tape recorder, a Studer-Revox PR99, to the words, captured by a microphone, that are pronounced by a woman who sleeps two steps away from him. Somniloquy has an artistic past: the experiment of hypnotic sleep, carried out in 1922 by Crevel, Desnos, Péret, and told by Breton in Les Pas perdus.

Unfolding belongs to a series of photographs from a performance featuring different static positions in natural spaces. It is part of a reflection on body postures, also visible in The Failure or Body Sign and reflects the actionism of the 80s. Currently named performances, this type of artistic interventions were then called "actions", term with an undeniable stronger political connotation.

The Mirror series, captures Decebal Scriba's interventions on the seashore, and acts as a philosophical reflection around the concept of reality. Like a labyrinth, the notion of reality can take a multitude of paths. A global image of reality, in accordance with a presumed established definition, nevertheless becomes more complex and elusive as our common conventions are questioned, querying its very existence.

Broken Horizon is part of a research on the perception of reality. The landscape, located in a minimalist universe on the Black Sea, becomes a space of projection of a state of crisis. It represents a feeling of failure, the horizon of all expectations is closed on itself, it breaks, like a "liquid Ararat of isolation."

The Failure belongs to a series of photographs from a performance featuring different static positions in natural spaces. It is part of a reflection on body postures, also visible in Unfolding or Body Sign and reflects the actionism of the 80s. Currently named performances, this type of artistic interventions were then called "actions", term with an undeniable stronger political connotation.

Light Barrier is part of a series of photographic experiments by Decebal Scriba on the theme of light. With their eyes closed, sitting on the floor, simultaneously united and separated in the artificial atmosphere created by the lighting of a fluorescent tube, the two characters imagine themselves to be the guardians of light in a context of darkness.

The Veil of Matter is linked to Decebal Scriba's interest in the different states and aspects of matter. Through his poetic eye, it is the ephemeral vision of the impermanence of matter under the light of dawn that appear. The photographs thus form a sort of cartography of the undulatory infinity, like many veils of matter.

États-inversés series have been created thanks to elevation data files and show monochromatic landscapes, rivers and mountains from the United States territory. Unless here after changing the light direction and so relief shading, the artist created an inverted landscape. Valleys became crests and mountains became depressions. So instead of offering the classic bird-eye view these maps gives us an exclusive view from underneath.

Wrapped sculpture documents a work by Decebal Scriba on body expression and the non-existence of existence. The sheet conceal while emphasizing the body, in order to protect it or fetishize it.