Boris Acket's father has spent the last three years photographing his son's studio practice, documenting the technical tests and failures that shape his multidisciplinary work. The setup inverts their earlier dynamic. As a child, Acket shadowed his father, Rob, a sound technician and designer working across film and television sets. Now Rob becomes the documentarian of Boris's intricate installations, capturing the labor most viewers never see.
This reversal feels deliberate, not accidental. The father becomes witness to the son's process, filtering complex work through a familial lens. It's the kind of documentation that strips away the polished final product to expose the scaffolding underneath. Those long studio hours, the technical failures, the endless iterations. These moments rarely make it into gallery presentations or exhibition catalogs. They get archived in a father's photographs instead.
Hypebeast framed this as part of their "Through the Lens" series, treating the father's documentation as its own artistic gesture. The circularity works both ways. Rob spent years recording other people's creative visions. Now he records his son's. The cameras just pointed in a different direction.