La Société Spectrale, HUNTINGAMES, 2019

HUNTINGAMES (2019), is an on-going series of video works that document the wave of protests that have swept up Albania, and especially Tirana, over the past 18 months in a unique way. La Société Spectrale has attempted to identify in these sites where antagonism appears more pronounced than in other aspects of public life, the existence of an energy that in a future as yet unforeseeable might become the spark necessary to precipitate a radical overcoming of the status quo. During the filming of HUNTINGAMES, La Société Spectrale have used a stealth camera, the kind used to hunt wild animals, but also study them, especially endangered species. As a rule, the stealth camera is static and it records at intervals, becoming activated by the slightest movement within a predetermined radius, but always in search of a specific and elusive subject (image). La Société Spectrale used their stealth camera as a handheld camera, in exceptionally dynamic situations with incessant movement, pointing it at seemingly unimportant details, thus testing the limits of the apparatus itself, but still in search of something that is essentially invisible even though its presence is undeniable.