Versus Dystopia part II
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Set of 18 photographs.
Sizes and process:
Set of silver color photographs in medium format (120 film size).
H 12 X L 12 inches, Giclee process on Hahnemühle PhotoRag Baryta 315gr Fine Art paper mounted on Dibond,
American box frame, H 16 X L 16 inches.
Limited edition of 5.
Price: € 1,250 incl. More information.
Versus Dystopia or the Poetics of Uncertainty, is a research on Men and faith. Part II proposes a tightening that highlights a detail, fragmented part of a whole, like iconographic books. Versus Dystopia opposes the idea of a counter-utopia. It nourishes the hope that when something serious, something that defies understanding happens, Man* rises to a higher form of humanity and awakens to the sublime reality of solidarity.
Philisophy teaches that when habits can no longer continue, one must follow a path of extraordinary behaviour. In Chinese philosophy, one has to "cross the great river", confront uncertain waters to reach new shores. I often like to believe that uncertainty is what makes us the most human, humbly human.
Dystopia depicts an imaginary society, a society organised in such a way as to prevent its members from achieving happiness. To the point of becoming a utopia that turns into a nightmare. The current trend is to endlessly repeat that the world is ill, that our planet is dying, that our civilisation is decadent, that humans are cowards or worse, traitors. I felt that it was important to create Versus Dystopia.
I spent months searching for my heroes, to cast them as new martyrs. I found in Michel Rostain and Sebastien Abot, one a writer, the other a painter, embodiments of a gleaner and a prophet who walk together, rise together, help each other or meet again. I imagined them and photographed them in the poses of a St. Christopher of the Venetian school, a Sisyphus of Titian, a Pieta of William Bouguereau etc.
These two men have in turn embodied the heroes of a contemporary history, without ever meeting during the shoots, since each photograph is totally reconstructed as a photomontage. As in art books, I also extracted from each representation, a detail, that becomes itself an image, which constitutes Versus Dystopia Part II.
Models : Michel Rostain (writer) et Sébastien Abbot (painter).
* "Man" is used, not in a restrictive manner, but as the ancient shortcut for "Humanity".
Versus Dystopia part II
Read the text | Back to gallery
Set of 18 photographs.
Sizes and process:
Set of silver color photographs in medium format (120 film size).
H 12 X L 12 inches, Giclee process on Hahnemühle PhotoRag Baryta 315gr Fine Art paper mounted on Dibond,
American box frame, H 16 X L 16 inches.
Limited edition of 5.
Price: € 1,250 incl. More information.
Versus Dystopia or the Poetics of Uncertainty, is a research on Men and faith. Part II proposes a tightening that highlights a detail, fragmented part of a whole, like iconographic books. Versus Dystopia opposes the idea of a counter-utopia. It nourishes the hope that when something serious, something that defies understanding happens, Man* rises to a higher form of humanity and awakens to the sublime reality of solidarity.
Philisophy teaches that when habits can no longer continue, one must follow a path of extraordinary behaviour. In Chinese philosophy, one has to "cross the great river", confront uncertain waters to reach new shores. I often like to believe that uncertainty is what makes us the most human, humbly human.
Dystopia depicts an imaginary society, a society organised in such a way as to prevent its members from achieving happiness. To the point of becoming a utopia that turns into a nightmare. The current trend is to endlessly repeat that the world is ill, that our planet is dying, that our civilisation is decadent, that humans are cowards or worse, traitors. I felt that it was important to create Versus Dystopia.
I spent months searching for my heroes, to cast them as new martyrs. I found in Michel Rostain and Sebastien Abot, one a writer, the other a painter, embodiments of a gleaner and a prophet who walk together, rise together, help each other or meet again. I imagined them and photographed them in the poses of a St. Christopher of the Venetian school, a Sisyphus of Titian, a Pieta of William Bouguereau etc.
These two men have in turn embodied the heroes of a contemporary history, without ever meeting during the shoots, since each photograph is totally reconstructed as a photomontage. As in art books, I also extracted from each representation, a detail, that becomes itself an image, which constitutes Versus Dystopia Part II.
Models : Michel Rostain (writer) et Sébastien Abbot (painter).
* "Man" is used, not in a restrictive manner, but as the ancient shortcut for "Humanity".
