Jeremy Lynch, Simulacrum # 01, 40 x 40 cm, C-Print, Ed. 1/5, 2010
Photo Edition Berlin Ystaderstr.14a Prenzlauer Berg 10437 Berlin Allemagne
In the new photographs by Canadian artist Jeremy Lynch (*1966) we discover something which since the invention of photography has not lost its fascination at all: to make the invisible visible.That visibility depends on the media (technique) introduced by the spiritualists of the 19th Century, their laconic motto probably is as valid today as it was understood back then: "No Medium, no photograph".
The precise form of "Simulacrum" goes back to the atomistic theory of perception of Lucretius.To generate their own visibility by sending out constantly fine layers of its outer envelope into the room, things then leave the appropriate marks on the retina. These flying-around layers or "skin" are the simulacra.
Roland Barthes said that a simulacrum reconstructs his subject through selection and recombination and in this way designs it anew. The result is a "world that is similar to the first, not copying it, but wants to make visible. "