Fran Lejeune : "Taken on the spot, the artist's photograph with Kayvan does not resist either the pixelation of the image and the dynamic imposed on it.
As Roland Barthes "almost" recognized his mother in a photo, Jean-Michel Rolland "almost" relives this festive moment drowned in a black and white magma through which the faces show through from time to time.
If for Roland Barthes analog photography attests that this memory “was”, for Jean-Michel Rolland this suspended time is immediately destroyed thanks to digital.
He joins in this Bernard Stiegler for whom the epokhe, suspended time, is both maintained and radically questioned.
By destroying the precision of souvenir-photography, the artist thereby affirms a kind of disinterest in the past or at least in the images that freeze it.
If analog photograph attested to a past presence and did not lie, the artist destroys all these certainties with the digital image where each pixel can be moved, even truncated."