Unseen

Unseen

Series of 7 photos / 34,6cm x 52cm x 9cm / Light box / 2016

This series of photographs originated during SIBOS – the Swift International Banking Operations Seminar – in Geneva in 2016. Sibos is one of the most important trade fair for the finance sector and takes place in a different city each year. It is typically attended by as many as 8000 CEOs and experts from financial institutions worldwide. Specialists from financial market infrastructures and global businesses, as well as partners from the technology branch, gather together here, in an exclusive setting, in order to negotiate, to develop business and fiscal strategies, to network and to determine the future issues facing the finance industry.
At this event I was able to observe the presentation and representation of the world of finance at close quarters and investigate the codes produced by them. Traces such as those of global financial policy rose to the visible surface at this event intended exclusively for an embedded professional audience.
I focused my choice of view and image on the architecture of the fair stands. The design of these installations, which steer the view of every outsider looking in; glazed spaces that control visibility and vision and prevent the possible identification of the people inside. This fragmenting architecture, organising every look from outside, was what interested me for this photo series, and it is here, therefore, that non-visibility takes centre stage, forming the framework of “Unseen”.
The photographs are installed as light boxes.