Fiction

Fiction surprises us first by its desire to escape from all narration. The situations, beings and places are neither identified, nor are they located anywhere. Flashes of nights, fragments of intertwined fates, fleeting yet oppressive takes weave what Michael Ackerman defines as 'a way of saying that is more mysterious than language'. As the photographer himself writes: 'I try to escape the traps of reality while maintaining a link with the real. For photos are not inventions but encounters. It is not about aesthetic research. That everything be haunted is not a completely deliberate will. But, for me, photography is inseparable from disappearance.'