2024
60 images on baryta paper, 24*36cm, plexiglass frame, floor stickers, five channels sound loop.
In a quest to performatively exhaust himself, Augustin Lignier reaches for the unreachable.
“Turning Point” is equal parts obsession with a single movement and a poetic commentary on the act of image-making—or perhaps on living a life (you choose).Lignier undertakes the seemingly simple task of jumping and turning across a circle, aiming to land perfectly at the camera’s shutter. His tedious search for the perfect shot — where the gaze is right, the body is aligned, and the heel hovers just above the ground — offers a curious take on the decisive moment but also serves a surprisingly simple and apt metaphor for liminality, a space of change. Whether a response to the world or a self-reflection, this series sends you on a ride from a good laugh to anxiety, and back. The 60 images displayed out of 6,000 taken stand as a testament to photography's eternal promise to capture the ephemeral and a psychological portrait of our ever-pursuing, ever-unsatisfied human nature.A dizzying spiral with a floor instruction that has no beginning or end. Accompanied by a relentless soundtrack of triggering sounds, he prompts us to either join in the performance or give up to our own confusion. Lignier competes with the camera, plays with the audience and mocks the very act of photography itself.
Text by Anna Konstantinova
Photography, Installation, Sound