Roger Ballen From 2013-05-24 to 2013-07-06 Exhibition : Roger Ballen |
Story : JR |
DOUX-AMER From 2013-07-01 to 2013-09-22 Exhibition : Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt |
Book : Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt |
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"Mes photographies ne sont que des aspects, des segments de la réalité. Des réalités méconnues et parfois difficiles à exprimer. C’est ma réalité, oubliez le sujet."
Roger Ballen
L’œuvre de l’Américain Roger Ballen (New York, 1950) ne s’appréhende pas avec aisance, tant elle n’a jamais donné...
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From April 22 to May 10, 2013, for INSIDE OUT NEW YORK CITY, JR and his team invite New Yorkers and visitors to take self-portraits in a photo booth truck stationed in Times Square, the site of the world’s first ever photo booth almost 100 years ago.
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‘The world revealed to us by Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt is not cheerful. Although he doesn’t travel around the planet to testify to the pains of the world, and he doesn’t indulge a fascination for war, drama and blood, we can clearly see that he has made no deals with the world of privilege.
He...
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Monkey or dog, animals strange or familiar, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt does not differentiate. He fixes a moment of meeting between two beings, so close, so different. Beyond the bizarre, beyond the comical nature that underscores without caricaturizing, here is a respect for the other, a tenderness,...
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