I am an experimental photographer with a penchant for imperfections.
My work primarily focuses on two different aspects.
I am fascinated by the unreliability of the human memory as an instrument for recording reality. Our recollection is at best a potpourri of isolated but genuine events. Sometimes, it is not even that. Often our memories assail us with a medley of impressions we have assembled ourselves throughout the years. Our mind orders, rearranges, colours, discolours, dims and accentuates our past... all by itself, independently of our conscious will.
I tend to create images that could convey the subsequent memory of an event.
Hence, I actively search for the flaw, the colouration, the interpretation and deformation of reality; that which will compose our subsequent memory.
My tools and methods (old Polaroid camera’s – usage of expired film – deliberate film obstructions) resemble our memory in that they are NOT precise and are not even geared towards a perfect representation. They often yield results that I could never have predicted with any certainty, because their imperfections do not allow for calculation.
The second aspect of my work involves the re-invention of my life in pictures. I play with that which is and that which I would like to be. I investigate how minor photographic manipulations can influence our view of reality. If I tell a story, will it be perceived as real? Does it become real because it has been told?
Permanent Polaroid Exhibition/
POLANOIR gallery
www.polanoir.com
Breite Gasse 11/1/1
1070 Vienna
Austria
Limited editions of 47
LLambda photos
signed & numbered
57 x 70 cm / 22,4 x 27,6 inch
(while supplies last)
exhibitions/
1. 2004. The Lomography World Congress, Beijing
June 29 to July 4
+-50 of my pictures featuring
http://www.lomography.com/worldcongress2004/
2. 2005. The Greenspace Lomography Project 2005, Valencia
Monday, Oct 24 to Saturday Oct 29
+-30 of my pictures featuring
http://www.lomography.com/greenspace/
3. 2005. Vienna Is, Wien
9 november 05 till 26 january 06 at the Wiener Planungswerkstatt, Friedrich-Schmidt Platz 9, 1010Wiener
The City of Vienna Municipal Department for Urban Development and Planning, and the Lomographic Society International present the final entries to the 'Vienna Is' project, an international competition and exhibition held as part of the Vienna Architecture Year 2005.
+-100 of my pictures featuring
http://www.lomography.com/viennais
4. 2006. New York, New York, mijn zeer persoonlijke dubbele visie op ‘s werelds meest tot de verbeelding sprekende stad.
Gallerij Fotoshop, Steendam 59 te Gent, gratis toegang voor iedereen. Je vindt me daar in de oude bankkluis tot de 30ste November.
5. 2007- now. my project: TicKL magazine.
Polaroid Art Porn Cabinet.
Sexy, small and independent erotic magazine.
For sale at
www.tickl-magazine.com or in a store nearby.
click……Click……………..CLICK .
etc, etc, etc......
(of zoals Louis Paul Boon het al eerder zei: enzovoort, enzovoort, enzovoort..)
Men leze het voort op Facebook.
online galleries/
http://www.tickl-magazine.com
http://www.polanoir.com/carmendevos
http://people.polanoid.net/carmendevos
http://www.lomohomes.com/carmendevos
