the photo camera, ... (which is) different from that which speaks to the eye; especially different in this: that instead of a space consciously elaborated by men, there is a space unconsciously elaborated” Again on photography, Susan Sontag reminds that Balzac, while talking with Nadar, suggested the image of a body composed of an infinite series of “ghostly images; which each photo release would have caught, or rather consumed. The image of Stargate is like a veil, it is a double as to the real; also its time is a double, Nothing is happening in the reality and the duration of the video is just the time spent by the video camera for a long slow motion zooming. The video's time is the time performed by the video camera and given back by the monitor, it is the time of the “machine? like It was in the video installations the artist produced from 1984 to 1989, where the television sets and close-circuit monitors not only were indicative of the medium self-referential quality, but they also made perceivable the technological device's expanded time, on the way of Bruce Nauman’s first experiments on feed back.
