Resonances
Matthias Koch
Photographer
based in France
In our modern lives, one phenomenon occupies a devouring place, but we often prefer to ignore it, so insoluble does it seem: the constant sensation of running out of time. We spend our days in a perpetual state of urgency. We suffocate, prisoners of this frenzy. How can we explain the paradox of an age full of machines that are supposed to save us time - cars, washing machines, the Internet - but which paradoxically plunge us into an unprecedented "time famine"?
The organization of time has become the principal tool of social domination in this era of "late" modernity. The demand to multiply experiences at all costs prevents everyone from truly owning their own existence and using their time to do what they really want to do. It's a form of alienation.
This constant frenzy is a "totalitarian force" that generates profound "alienation" and serious social pathologies. Critical awareness is essential if we are to reinvent an authentic, non-alienated life that is in harmony with the world rather than at odds with it.
The Resonances series is an attempt to explore this authentic life, rooted in a land already cultivated by previous generations, a relationship to time that goes beyond an individual life.
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