About the archive
The 1st Rock Lehiaketa of Legabide never took place. Legabide does not exist. The hundred and fifteen photographs in this archive are synthetic, and the people who appear in them have never existed. Neither did the bands, nor the jury, nor the photographer who annotates the records.
What does exist are the images. They were generated some time ago with an old model and sat in a folder with nowhere to go. This archive did not start from an idea that then went looking for photographs: it started from the photographs, and the idea came out of looking at them closely.
Because the images were already saying things nobody had asked them for. There were wind instruments everywhere, and that is not Anglo-Saxon punk: that is a village brass band. Almost every group posed in a line and face on, which is not how you photograph a concert but how you photograph a school portrait. And there were nineteen bodies in the air and not one fall.
Everything else came from that. A band contest at a village fiesta is the only thing that explains someone photographing rock groups as if they were a first communion: the town hall commissioned the wedding photographer, and he did what he knew how to do. The rest of the archive is what happened to him.
The three acts are measured, not invented
The order of the catalogue was not decided: it was calculated. Every file was measured for colour saturation, and the cut came out clean — the most saturated of the black and white photographs gives 16.1 and the least saturated of the colour ones gives 19.9. There is nothing in between. That gap is what separates the acts, and the decomposition of the archive is literally the number going up.
That the colour creeps into three different bands and into one unattributed photograph was not decided either. It was in the files. And it is what makes this the story of the man taking the pictures and not the story of any of the groups.
Why it is declared
A document that hides being a work is a forgery. And it also works less well: the interesting proposition is not that you believe this happened, but that you remember it knowing it did not. The archive does not ask for faith. It asks for attention.
It is declared here, on the record of every piece that comes out of these holdings, and anywhere this material circulates.
How it is made
- Photographs: image diffusion model, 768 × 768 px
- Moving photographs and synchronised sound: MiniMax H3
- Recordings: MiniMax Music 3
- Masks: Qwen Image Edit
- Site: Nuxt, static
Igor Rekarte · The Rendered