POEMS – signé

POEMS – signed – Known for his textile and sound work, Christopher Robin Duncan has recently turned his attention to photography, rediscovering with simple and sincere pleasure the medium that he had put aside for some time. Marked by the question of time, and enlightened by an intuitive and direct relationship with the natural elements, Christopher Robin Duncan’s practice is developing once again through the use of photography. Using a half-camera which, by dividing the film in two, doubles time and space through the same action, Duncan creates interstices – the time of a heartbeat, a fraction of a second – into which he imperceptibly slips and moves, creating suspended moments. In Poems, Duncan offers us a delicate relationship with time. There are links with the seasons and natural cycles, with air, water and wind. Like a volume of poetry, where rhymes answer and echo each other, the lo-fi but precious views Duncan gathers are combined into poems, resonating far and wide, finally forming a complete cycle, a perfect revolution around his solar heart. And like the wind that blows across the photographed views, we can also experience the unbound pages, rearranging their rhymes into visual sequences each time rethought.