"We have been working together since 1992. One evening, at night, chance guided us both to notice an extraordinary speck of light on the wall. Mesmerised by the mystery of this speck, half-abstract, half realistic, we stood there a long time trying to decipher it. The enigma was solved when we saw the cat stretch its legs: it had been sleeping half way across a mirror that lay on the bed in the middle of various other objects. The cat jumped and the miracle was overs"

François Loriot & Chantal Mélia (ESPACE Scultpure, No. 46)

The rule of the game is given from the outset: to widen the space between the initial seemingly chaotic scene and a photographic-like final image. It is in the absence of an obvious causality between the image and that which produces it that the game is played. Light, in all its manifestations, is the key to the virtual imagery which is being developed. The work seizes the energy of infinitely small pieces of reality. All the inconsequential events of the day are pinned down, dissected and reassembled as installations, 'théâtres d'objects' or elementary stage sets. The intention is not to add more images to the maelstrom of our multi-mediated world, but rather to use light as a means to reveal the world's latent images. This practice of the Epiphany activates one's visual triggers beyond conventional and predictable modes of thinking and generates multiform works evoking little visual 'machineries' and other poetical intrigues.

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