The Popemobile, one of the Prototipos (2), is the central focus of a series of photographs exhibited as a slide show. In a rapidly changing neighbourhood in Barcelona, the model of the vehicle is placed in the road: pedestrians walk by without stopping, some slowing to look, intrigued, others posing for a photograph.
The Pope, the procession’s figurehead, is absent, as are the emotional crowds, but the sculpture, now a device for the generation of images, produces an almost interactive effect. It evokes for us a scene in which a hidden camera watches the reactions of passers-by, or portraits of anonymous members of the public photographed standing by a celebrity in the street. Thus placed within the common space, to stand the test of reality, the prototype stimulates new projections of the imagination.
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2005
video
master HD CAM from digital photographs
1’10’’
silent
prints of 5 copies and 1 AP.
Photography: Jordi Colomer
Assisted by: Sergi Olivares
Editing and video post-production: Adolf Alcañiz (Barcelona)
Production: Jeu de Paume (Paris), Maravills (Barcelona)
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