Various Work by Annaïk Lou Pitteloud (June 7, 2010) 
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Introduction by Nathalie Herschdorfer
Annaïk Lou Pitteloud’s photographs evoke more than they represent, exploring the ability of photography to throw doubt on reality. Digitally constructed, her images are similar to our thoughts or dreams. They look real but are unreal. By using different forms of artifice, Pitteloud creates a body of work with a strong sense of unreality, causing viewers to question the existence of the scenes, people and places that are depicted. These images skirt the realms of fiction. Nathalie Herschdorfer is curator of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, click logo in sidebar to visit the museum’s website.
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These images present themselves as snapshots but are in fact staged scenes constituted of hundreds of photographs.
Spaces and bodies have been composed of multiple fragments, and a feeling of estrangement slips into these mundane scenes. This way the artifice which isn’t always visible stays perceptible; allowing to experience an instant that never took place.
The construction of a new form of document which isn’t factual anymore but mental, and where reality is observed through fiction.
The image becomes an analysis of different elements that never meet, dissecting the real to make it visible as a construct.
The images chosen for Bite! hover between the notions of banality and catastrophe.
This ensemble tries to depict an abstract place that functions as a model for a larger understanding of certain social phenomena.
It makes scenes visible that approach the fait divers; where nothing much, but potentially everything happens.
This research tries to flush out the opaque barbarism of every day, to catch a glimpse of the procedures of violence lodged in the details of daily life.
Annaïk Lou Pitteloud (1980) lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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