Nicolas Comment

Est-ce l’Est ? (Berliner romanze) (2008)

Nicolas Comment

Born in 1973

Est-ce l'Est (Berliner romanze) proposes a new, subjective topography and sentimantality for a city, but this time has a more solitary and explicitly resounding outcome. Nicolas Comment has deepened the connection between images and sound that was initiated in his earlier project, Fading, and Est-ce l'Est is marked by an idea of a correspondance between the arts. Here, photographs accompany songs, and together, set in ex-East Berlin, is a poetic portrait haunted by history but also juxtaposed through the softness and sensuality of feminine silhouettes. Interspersed with signs, graffiti, letters and emblems that were collected at random by wandering, the series becomes a mysterious visual and sonorous puzzle.