As a Matter of (f) Act 01, The Queen Must Die, reading (2min55)
audio reading As a Matter of (f) Act 01 - The Queen Must Die
As a Matter of (f) Act is a series of mini-publications, each with a spatial translation, consisting of photographic images and text, focussing on a specific gesture where human and nature meet. An encounter where humankind often takes the controlling and dominant position, while simultaneously accepting the laws of nature.
The photographic images document these moments, gestures and encounters as a straightforward registration, applying photographic aesthetic. These applied aesthetics somehow confirms and reinforces the romanticized nature of the narrative and the encounter between human and nature, as well as that of the photographic medium. The text accompanying each edition, on the other hand, creates a experimental counter-narrative in which fact and fiction are mixed up, and serves to question and deconstruct this romanticized translation of reality we often attribute to the photographic medium.
01 The Queen Must Die : The first edition shows us a beekeeper catching a wild bee colony by moving its queen towards a new destination, while accepting the uncontrollable whether the colony will follow or not.
As a Matter of (f) Act 01 - The Queen Must Die consists of three elements :
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