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At the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) tourists have their photographs taken behind the sign marking the location, hopelessly leaving the landscape out of the picture.
In the USA, “Photopoint” panels litter the National Parks showing adventurous tourists the locations worthy of a picture.

The installation of “Move along now, there’s nothing to see” pokes fun at these regimented perspectives while at the same time encouraging “a fresh point of view”: a sign marked “Photopoint” in several languages is set up for two months in front of an empty landscape, apparently devoid of interest: a mound, a tree, a field, no opening, no apparent perspective. Disposable cameras are made available to the public so that everyone can give us his or her point of view on “nothing”.
The result is a collection of strange photographs, overexposed, blurred, as if the “nothing” refused to be photographed, as if it was reluctant.

Created in collaboration with Dominique Gayman.