A digital slide show reveals hundreds of images that focus on particular moments in the course of action, such as the moments before a basketball enters… or misses… the basket. The players, referees and viewers tensely await the result, yet the slides suspend this awaited moment and the ensuing relief. The numerous stills cameras, which capture the moment with their surgical gaze, penetrate the composition and focus on the thousands of tensely expectant figures.
The basketball tournament is thus gradually broken down into hundreds of individual portraits, which return the viewer’s gaze and question our perception of images as one-directional. Each portrait was individually shot with a digital camera, and the resultant images – which were not manipulated – expose the personal desire in the eyes of every subject. The players themselves were photographed with a series of simultaneous cameras, while carefully avoiding ostentatious movements. As a result, the images are suffused with a theatrical quality, as if they were staged.