Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents a new installation of\u00a0Parallel I-IV, the last completed work by the artist and filmaker Harun Farocki (1944-2014). \u201cI am\u00a0researching these strange new images which are somehow on the verge of competing with and defeating\u00a0finally the cinematic-photographic image. The era of reproduction seems to be over, and the era of\u00a0construction of a new world seems to be somehow on the horizon, or not on the horizon, it is already here.\u201d
\nWith these words Farocki describes the series of 4 pieces entitled Parallel, a reflection on the status of the\u00a0image in the digital age, a rigorous structural analysis of the processes through which reality is visually\u00a0constructed, made possible by computer animation tools.
\nFarocki has worked as a film director since the 1960s, and for the past 5 decades he has been one of the
\nkeenest observers of the political and social trends of his time, which he analyzes through the technological\u00a0and linguistic developments of the moving image. A social scientist, artist-archaeologist, media theorist and\u00a0political activist \u2013these labels, which have been attached to him, give us an idea of the complexity and\u00a0relevance of an author who has experimented with different genres and contexts, from documentary to film\u00a0essay to video installation, from art cinema to television and the art and museum system. What remains the\u00a0same across all of these different forms is his use of images in a critical, analytical perspective. This\u00a0reflective attitude coexists with practice, and acts upon it as a propulsive force. The connivance of visual\u00a0representation with certain forms of exploitation, from the surveillance industry to military violence, is a\u00a0preferred subject of inquiry for Farocki who, in the words of philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, has\u00a0explored the modes in which \u201cthe production of images contributes to the destruction of the human being\u201d.
\nParallel I-IV, 2012-2014 focuses its attention on the evolution of digital animation as applied to videogames.
\nIn the different chapters of this work, which coexist in the exhibiting space within a multi-channel immersive\u00a0installation, Farocki carries out a stylistic analysis that begins with the earliest stages of this application,\u00a0when graphic solutions were extremely rough and simplistic, and ends with the photo-realism of today\u2019s\u00a0programs. However, although they tend to become increasingly realistic and even naturalistic, these images\u00a0are characterized by a lack of indexical relatedness to reality, unlike what happened with the film and\u00a0photographic medium. It is no longer about recording and reproducing physical traces of reality, or\u00a0documenting it objectively - it is about building realities from nothing, worlds that have their own structures\u00a0and functioning rules, other than those of the outside world. As the narrator\u2019s voice in Parallel I recites, \u201cin\u00a0films there is the wind that blows and the wind that is produced by a wind machine. Computer images do not\u00a0have two kinds of wind\u201d. No longer representations but ideal-typical models, these images will redefine and\u00a0subvert our relationship with reality. Or maybe they already have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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