Eric Tabuchi's new book Fat
- A French American Trip got just published by Matmos Press, an
independent publisher based in Montréal (QC). Matmos Press produces, prints and
distributes artist books focused on photography, art, and contemporary design
practice. Pursuing his pop and
serial studies of the French landscape, Eric Tabuchi questions the validity of
his photographic method in contrast to the considerable power wielded by the
likes of Google, which, via his global digitization company, is at last carrying
out a project that is genuinely objective. Thus, contrary to his habitual method
of scanning the field, Eric Tabuchi has undertaken the exploration of familiar
places, but through this parallel world, the carbon copy of reality that is
Street View.Consequently, FAT creates a strain between these two levels of
perception, which are henceforth known to all as the virtual and the real, the
space of projection and the concrete territory. FAT is America, projected
through the realm of the French imagination, digitized by Google and at last,
compiled by Eric Tabuchi, as a sort of staggeringly condensed outlook of what
globalization could be, in the era of internet.
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