VASKOS
Déjà vu: Kyoto 2016, 2016

Déjà vu is a series of photographic diptychs that act as a paradoxical game of memory, as an affirmation of mutual complicity, or as a journey diary of common life. Each diptych comprises two images -one by each of us- of (almost) the same subject. The photographs are taken during our journeys but the diptychs are created afterwards by selection. The “joint” element concerns the editing, the joint decision to trigger a common memory, to give a meaning to the trivial. The Déjà vu diptychs act like a mirroring on each other’s gaze. There is a paradox in the title, in that this feeling of the “already seen,” the previously experienced, occurs simultaneously, on the spot and more or less consciously, and then occurs for a second time in the editing. The déjà vu is triggered by something relatively unimportant ; what matters is the feeling itself, the momentary destabilization of normality it produces, the vertigo. It suddenly feels as if you have touched the tip of an iceberg of memory.

Text by the artists.