Travel traces - unusual photography of broken narration Les Meteorites de l'amour of Gérald Minkoff and Muriel Olesen

Abstract

Travel traces – unusual photography of broken narration Les Météorites de l’amour Gérarda Minkoffa oraz Muriel Olesen. The text broadly speaking is about narration. It goes trough reflection on narrative situation which occurs between spectator and piece of art, differences in that situation coming out from painting or photography. An inspiration for this article was the cycle of photography by Gérard Minkoff and Muriel Olesen - Les Météorites de l’amour (Meteorites of love). The artists travel quite often and after each night spent in a new place, they create a meteor – a kind of bowl made by shaping the duvet on the bad. It was called a meteor because it keeps secrets from the night. From this point of view the travel – quite often associated with predictable pictures, or simply reportage photos – becomes a pretext to say something more then travel itself. Pretext, to say something about human as subject. Through narrative reflection, the text in a metaphorical way establishes a dialog with two classical texts Heidegger’s’ The Origin of the work of art and Foucault The order of things.