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Les incidents by Nicolas Cabos

Jul 14, 2018 - Pauline Hisbacq
I really love my friend Nicolas Cabos‘ series Les incidents.
“When I was a teenager, I spent hours, at night, watching television, zapping, looking for films and short films featuring people my age and looking at length for slips or moments that could lead us to believe that something was going to go wrong. With my finger on my camera or on the RECORD button on my VCR, I recorded all these images, or video fragments to gradually constitute an alphabet of what I perceived then as the essence of my desire.
Later, I equipped myself with a small camcorder that would gradually become my new sampling tool, but this time it was going to be in the people around me or that I met more or less furtively that I was going to track these “skids”. Sometimes waiting for long moments waiting for the slightest gesture, look, the slightest situation that could become an image of another nature than what it really was. These skids, or the beginnings of skids. These incidents.”
Les incidents is also a book, published by One Ink Publisher: http://one-ink.blogspot.com/2014/10/les-incidents.html