Irene Westerbeek
Curator and founder of the Cool Collector. Irene (1984) lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands as a freelance trendwatcher and brand strategist.
Last week we received this beautiful photo project by Gabriel Jones who lives and works in New York and Paris. You might know his work from the Arcade Fire Suburbs cover!
His project “Things That We Don’t hear” is a series that plays with the notion that humans are using their senses with a protective filter in order to concentrate one’s direct environment. The ear for instance will be sensitive to the sound that is close to the human. The same with the information gathered by smell of sight. We omit an astronomous quantity of information that surrounds us.
These images where done with a low quality zoom lens and are highly pixilated. They are suggesting different notions of environment reading. The triangular interventions on the images are details that intends to remind the viewer of its viewer’s voyeuristic position. Two satellite images where also modified with triangular shapes and present a global vision as a complimentary point of view with the zoomed-in photographs.
Things that we do not hear:
Les choses que nous n’entendons pas
“Information-01″, 2011,: 30×42 cm. / 12×16 Inches, Ed. of 5
Map+cutouts. Ed. 1/1
“Information-02″, 2011,: 30×42 cm. / 12×16 Inches, Ed. of 5
Map+cutouts. Ed. 1/1
“Information-03″, 2011,: 30×42 cm. / 12×16 Inches, Ed. of 5
Map+cutouts. Ed. 1/1
“Information-04″, 2011, : 30×42 cm. / 12×16 Inches, Ed. of 5
“Information-05″, 2011,: 30×42 cm. / 12×16 Inches, Ed. of 5
“Information-06″, 2011, : 30×42 cm. / 12×16 Inches, Ed. of 5