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images © 2023-2024 Rico Michel
A “déjà vu” is a brief experience in which present time feels like a loop of memory being played back.
Science remains unclear as to how time can simultaneously be experienced as present and as a memory. I like the idea that there could be another layer to our world, a dimension in which the entirety of space and time could be perceived at once. In this scenario, a “déjà vu” would simply be an accidental glimpse into an alternate timeline.
This of course is all very hypothetical, but the idea makes sense to me as a metaphor for photography. Photographs, after all, exist in their own timeless reality; they so closely resemble our memories that over time, a photograph can be mistaken for the actual, original memory.
This “Déjà vu” series was taken on medium format film. Each photograph is available as a limited edition 24×24 inches (61×61 cm) analog print mounted on a sheet of aluminium.
Meet me upstairs
Your skin is an itch
And your mouth is a place
Of which I never tire
