Random Memories, 2016
    Eight hologram panels in aluminum structure, 70’’ tall and 8.25’’ wide
    Edition of two
 

The reconstructed space appears fragmented. Some of the images are essentially graphical when some others act as real windows on hyper realistic scenes. Shapes and colors recombine and cross each other following the movements of the viewer.
 
Pascal Gauchet’s first artworks with light were black and white photographs.  With these images he explored textures, shadows and shades of grey, often within the urban environment.  The use of a wide angle lens and of compositions depicting strong perspectives point were employed with the intent to construct an immersive scene reflecting the natural field of vision. His encounter with holography presented a medium to explore this intent.  The photographic constraint that ties the subject matter to the “cyclopean point of view” of the photographer, disappears.  The hologram becomes a window, through which the image “floats”, aerial and transparent, leaving the viewer to decide their own points of view.  A new universe opens up, a new relationship with imagery.

Through holography he first explored ‘light’, in a process which focused on physical colors and its iridescent hue.  In these works the volumetric aspect of holography is often being given secondary importance.   His recent construction of a system for synthesizing multiple photographic points of view into one single holographic image enables him to go back to photography.  A succession of discrete windows are distributed in space giving multitudes of points of view. Combined they create a single window of extended geometrical perspective.