Red Heat
Igor Tereshkov

In Russia in the spring of 2020, during the first lockdown imposed by the government to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, photographer Igor Tereshkov began a series of photographs using an infrared camera (also known as thermal camera). Obsessed by the possibility of representing the virus, which every day was occupying our outside spaces, isolating individuals and invading our bodies, Tereshkov regularly left his apartment and turned his gaze on a now-frightening environment, and on the isolation that was then reigning in our societies. The series of expressionist images that came out of this investigation were created with his camera that converts temperature data into shapes and colours. Assembled in a logbook, the images let us see a world in suffering and raise the question of how something invisible can be represented.