About Border Lines, by Michel Poivert.
The work grouped under the title Border Lines was made during trips to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The implementation of these images makes a fundamental appeal to digital technology; based on a montage in the panorama format, the images maintain a descriptive and utopic connection to reality.
The scenes were all observed from a precise topography but according to different temporalities. Therefore, in the same space, the discrepancies of time are re-sychronized by the images and the seams are left exposed: the Holy Land becomes a place of possible encounters while remaining present in its topographic reality.
Reworked by succcessive copying, the shots function as a sketchbook and as visual notation. Digital treatment is not used for effects but to amend the real, a powerful use of digital photography which conditions the contact with the world. The world which Cordesse shows us, these places so symbolic and generally caught up in media stereotypes, is a grand scene where the daily joins the historical issues of civilisations which co-exist.
In this way, the artist puts into place a practice which,starting from the problematics of image treatment, situates itself half-way between the reflection of a photographs' responsibility and its potential for the imaginary. To show, if needed, that digital art has transformed itself from candid expressive exploration to become a veritable instrument of creative innovation.