Luc Courchesne
«Portrait One»

«It is true that I am unreachable – and that you cannot change me. But look at the people around you: Are they so different from me? Are they reachable?» The one saying this is Marie, a young lady who lives in the ‹world behind the mirror›. We can face her, flirt a little, and make eye contact. Of course ‹Marie› as she appears to us is not real, she is not even a reflection of herself, but has been created through electronic-analog picture transmissions. She is in a virtual surrounding in which we, Marie's admirers, and Marie herself, act as icons in a symbolic sequence. For Marie, the computer, which brings her to virtual life, and the person involved – a human individual–are nothing other than this: a symbolic system, in which triggered actions, reactions, and interactions are resolved as in an experiment.