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Swiss artist Regis Golay examines the complex relationship between the photographed-filmed subject as a passive object and the photographer-filmmaker as an active “operator” – a concept drawn from Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida. In his images, the human body often appears subdued, absorbed, or even subsumed by its surroundings: gazing outward, enveloped by space, or functioning merely as a framing device. 

Golay highlights the paradox inherent in photography – its power to capture a fleeting moment and simultaneously to reduce the subject to a single, fixed representation. Through his treatment of figures, forms, and constructed objects, Golay exposes the distortions embedded within this process. His work draws attention to how an apparently non-fictive medium can both reveal and obscure, inviting viewers to question the limits of seeing and the quiet manipulations behind every act of depiction.

(Edited from text excerpts provided by the artist)