„I don´t remember if I was a mirror or a phone“ is questioning the photographic gesture by leading it ad absurdum in a digital space. The title, refering to a missing piece in the animation, the expected phone in the phonecase, places the gesture of photographing above the actual act of taking a picture. The appartus becomes interchangeable. A figure seated on a reflective surface holds a selfie stick in her raised hands, which appear to hold a smartphone. The character‘s arms are articulated and rotate the apparatus at a shallow angle: the rest of the image is motionless. There is a white shadow on the face turned towards the smartphone display, it moves as the apparatus rotates. It appears as if the character is taking a photographic self-portrait using a flash. Or does she hold a mirror in the apparatus that reflects the incident light onto her face? The flash, which in its singularity coincides with the trigger moment, seems to have been detached from it and, contrary to its nature, expanded in mobility into infinity. Photography and video merge. A closer look reveals that the smartphone holder is just a case clamped. The cut-outs for the smartphone camera let the view through to the background. The flash was subsequently placed on the image and digitally animated with the hand movement. The photographic gesture is theoretical. The camera becomes interchangeable. The photographic act is brought into focus via the animation. In fact, it is already complete when the original image is created. Video and digitality reflect the mediality of photography. The surface on which the figure is placed seems to flow away. A tablet shown becomes liquid and slides down the edge of the picture with the neighboring parts. This glitch refers to the digital, changeable materiality of the meta-reality in which the work is situated.

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