No photo (infraphotographable device)
The infraphotographiables (the infraphotographable devices) are a series of works with infrared light sources concealed beneath their surfaces. They appear differently when someone tries to photograph them. Using the way camera sensors register infrared light, they create a paradox: what remains invisible to the naked eye is revealed through the act of taking a photograph. Photographing the work thus makes the image appear.
No photo, the first work in the series, looks like a black monochrome but reveals the words “NO PHOTO” when photographed. Both a proof of concept and the most radical use of this process, the work invites viewers to discover it while preventing their direct experience, what they see and the photographic record from coinciding.