Install shot of Praia Piquinia 06/08/07 09h52 and 06/08/04 15h40
First of all please pardon my mediocre install shot. I hope that my poor photography skills do not diminish the integrity of this fine pair or images from Christian Chaize's Praia Piquinia.
Out of a series of twenty seven images, Praia Piquinia 06/08/07 09h52 is the only image that lacks human action on the beach. I had included the image in my original selection and had to push to include the image during work selection conversations with both Jen and Christian.
I find that the empty beach brings out the life of the other images. It is easy to start and accept the subtle variation in shape and color, until you are reminded that more than just sea and rock define the image. It is these subtle human changes and actions that make the images, as Ms. Jen Bekman noted in Christian's 20x200 announcement, "less about humanity and more about being human."
Paired with the first image taken in the series, Praia Piquinia 06/08/04 15h40, the photographs work together in a way none of us would have thought. The pairing acts as a reminder of the dialog had between all of the pieces in the show, spoken of in the press release as playfully rendering the passage of time through otherwise un-photographed (and therefore unobserved) changes in light, tides, the weather and the beachgoers’ configurations.
That is the case for the empty beach.
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