French photographer Antoine Geiger digitally distorts faces toward phone screens in SUR-FAKE. The series turns a concern about attention and technology into a deliberately impossible scene.
"It is placing the screen as an object of 'mass subculture', alienating the relation to our own body, and more generally to the physical world," says Geiger.
A 2015 profile introduced Geiger at twenty, with experience living in England, France and the Netherlands, four exhibitions and ten publications. Those figures describe that stage of his career.
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A visual distortion makes absorption visible
The surrounding photograph remains recognizable while the face loses its usual form. The person is physically present in a shared setting, yet attention appears to move elsewhere. Geiger's quoted explanation supplies his concern about the screen's place in everyday life. The distortion is an artistic metaphor, not documentation of a physical effect or a diagnosis of those pictured. Its interest lies in making an ordinary posture suddenly unfamiliar.
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