The images in Familiar Views are focused around a common view, following how intimate sceneries come out of our everyday visual background.
Every place is, or could be, someone’s landscape, so I cut out the very specific, adapting the recording position to each apartment’s structure.
The series documents what one sees daily, with windows drawing the boundary between two pictures, one containing the other. The images present a border, a relation marked by a dual interpretation.
This construction, of both interior and landscape, lets the viewer choose his side of the paired everyday tableau.
Which perspective is more intimate, in this layered voyeurism?
The one recording the apartments’s details, or the look out the window?
It could be both, as the two layers blend, in what I intend as assimilated reality: the one we tend not to observe anymore, swallowed and covered by our visual routine.
The project started in 2014 and is ongoing.
All the images were realized in Bucharest, Romania.
Michele Bressan (b. 1980)
He is an artist based in Bucharest, known to the public for his photographic projects, for which he won the Essl Prize and was nominated for the Henkel Prize for Art in 2009. In recent years, the themes he explores have materialized, along with photography, into object and installation. Michele’s interest in visual perception and the ways in which the collective imaginarium is being built starts from the image taken as a matrix of social and historical consciousness. This search is doubled by the desire to cut out from everyday reality the poetic spaces, which arise spontaneously or accidentally.
