Document:Q9827
From Rhizome Artbase
A Kodak Moment is about the pleasure of being seen and of the gaze. It is recorded in a new form of digital immortality which competes with the permanence of marble sculpture and ancient oil paintings, and trancends the transient and private venue of photography and motion film.
A Kodak Moment was a collaboration between myself and my girlfriend at the time, a visual artist-photographer named Roma Czernysz. Roma, seeing herself in the work, said “She's someone other than I. She lives in the photographs...but also in life. A woman seeing as she is seen, or seeing the way she is seen, not live, but in photographs.”
This work is a positive process of being objectified, where objectifying is not about distance but closeness.