In Camera
The In Camera installation by Mat Collishaw is based on phosphorescent crime scenes from the Birmingham Police archives from the 1930s and 1940s. These images were encapsulated in glass cases crafted by the artist and lit up with intermittent flashes in the darkness of the attic of the Vevey History Museum. Viewers could observe the prints and imagine the crimes perpetrated in these enigmatic settings. The exhibition explored the narrative potential of documentary photography when displayed as an actual work of art.
The End of Innocence
The End of Innocence is a monumental 35-m2 video installation by Mat Collishaw that digitally recreates a dialogue between the portrait of Pope Innocent X, painted by Diego Vélasquez in 1650, and its modern re-appropriation by Francis Bacon in 1953. Viewers stood before a swarm of luminous pixels blending both paintings as they perpetually faded in and out of each other. Presented in the choir of a church to the sound of digital rain especially composed for Vevey, this historic overview dealt with the superficiality of images and the fervor they generate in the post-internet era, where clouds, digital devices and social networks rule our every day.
