introspection

Introspection comes out of a digital art residency with swatch are peace hotel ( shanghai ) where I decided to go back to my home family. I lived and worked for months in the same bedroom I grew up in. Facing the memory trick of well-known places that gives me the feeling of never having left, I put myself in a complex situation: facing both the paradigms of the 20 years younger French engineer as well as the one of the North American self-made artist. This work made me understand the work that I have been doing for years with a different eye. I realized that the work I am doing in water is, in fact, photographs that represent my different states of mind. Introspection is thus a series of mindsets from feeling locked to looking for escape. Most of the images were made in the bath of the family house. A bath that was rarely used during our childhood as my parents have been long-time ecologists. Furthermore, when using flowers, they all come from the garden of the house, sharing some kinds of common roots. The chosen trace is part of the all series and summarizes well the project. It is representative of my stay at Swatch Art Peace Hotel as we had to make it digital and the all work became very deep discussions about our approach to art and our inner self." (Robin Cerutti, 2022)