How was your dream ?
Thaddé COMAR
How was your dream ? is a photographic project realized
during the Hong Kong protests between June and October
2019. This work deals with new forms of demonstration
and insurrection in our post-contemporary era dominated
by seamless control societies. Five years before, in Hong
Kong, the “Umbrella Movement“ was quickly repressed
by state and police violence. In 2019 the democratic
uprising that began in May, gave itself the means to
continue. Faced with a sophisticated arsenal of control
(facial recognition, geolocation, carding, eavesdropping,
infiltration, water cannons, tear gas, helicopter, sonic
weapons, non-lethal rifles), the Hong Kong demonstrators
have developed a repertoire of techniques based on
principles of invisibility and intraceability (anonymity,
lasers of blindness, pocket of faraday, vision by drones,
masks of all kinds, encrypted communication etc…),
allowing them to mitigate the effects of the repression.
These new devices, which contribute to the transformation
of the forms of struggle and resistance, however, push for
the gradual erasure of individual singularities. In the future,
will societies and sophisticated systems of control, force
us to make our human singularities disappear? Will this
be done in favor of a new common identity ?
curator Florent BASILETTI
partners Fondation Act On Your Future, Epson