Reanimation

Collaboration with Cari Vander Yacht
Date: 2013

For the project “Reanimation”, Thomas Sauvin has invited the graphic designer Cari Vander Yacht to play around with hundreds of photographs from the Beijing Silvermine archive. She has eventually created eight animated GIFs, intertwining humorous with poetical elements while reanimating memories that were meant to be forgotten. “Above all, I think that Thomas and I wanted was to disclose the narrative laying behind the images. By looking closely at these photographs, I was hoping to decode a hidden story. The most exciting thing with lost and found photographs is that one can dream about lives of strangers, imagine what they were doing or thinking, fantasize about their relationships with the photographer…In general, I invented rather surrealists scenarios as I always tend to evade reality, this is much more fun.”

在“复苏”这个项目中，苏文邀请了平面设计师Cari Vander Yacht来处理来自北京银矿档案库的数百张照片。她最终创造了八张动图，将幽默与诗意元素交织在一起，让原本应该被遗忘的记忆重新焕发活力。“最重要的是，我认为苏文和我想要揭示这些图像背后的叙事。通过仔细观察这些照片，我希望能解开一个隐藏的故事。围绕这些旧照最令人兴奋的事情就是可以幻想陌生人的生活，想象他们在做什么或思考什么，想象他们与摄影师的关系…… 总之，我创造了相当超现实主义的场景，因为我总是倾向于逃避现实，这更有趣“。