Paris: Digital photo Upload Error 

Paris

2019

In 2019, I came to Paris not for the aesthetics of postcards, but to see how the digital age is rewriting the code of this a “classic” city, turning it into a battlefield between living tissue and an algorithmic myth. The three series are not genres, but three stages of deconstruction.: 1. “Code: Love”: I’ve been catching a moment where lovers' hugs become a performance for smartphone cameras. This vulnerability exists in the era of digital replication of cliches. 2. “Code: Citizen”: The faces of Parisians are not portraits, but artifacts resistance. In their gazes through the crowd of tourists, in fatigue or irony, there is an attempt to preserve the human core under the onslaught of the simulacrum city. 3. “Code: Trace”: Urban still lifes are fragments of tradition, from which I am trying to assemble a new shelter. They are the materialization of the fleeting and unnecessary, what the algorithms of social networks cut off as “the noise.” The beauty here is not in perfection, but in the fragility of this trace, in its resistance to the digital entropy of oblivion. Together— this is a “Download Error”: A glitch in an ideal program “Paris.” My CB figure is not nostalgia, but a scalpel of modernity., revealing the conflict. This is a search for temporary shelters: in a sincere tired look, in ridiculous garbage, in an attempt to keep in touch without becoming a picture. Paris is not the backdrop here. He is a patient and an accomplice, and my project is an attempt to find harmony not in spite of, but inside this digital decay, using his own tools.