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At the nouvelles Images gallery

22 juillet 2005

At the nouvelles Images gallery, a few weeks ago, with Jasper De Beijer and the 25 other artists represented by the Nouvelles Images gallery, meeting with Beatrix, Queen of Nederland. Was also a fantastic meeting with Jasper De Beijer (see his site online) who became a POC member in June.

Water-Polo was made in a real rush

26 mai 2005

I’m really thinking of my Water-polo series… Water-Polo was made in a real rush. Each swimmer was just running to the dressing room, one minute, just the time to watch the camera… Water was still running on the skin, twelve tired boys, stressed and wondering how to behave in front of the camera. Yesterday, in the North of France, these parameters came suddenly back in a team of Mixt-Rugby. 18 boys and girls, wearing a rugby helmet looking like the water-polo one, same attitude, same stress, same questions running in the head… and still.

Estelle and Helene

26 mai 2005

Estelle and Helene are still growing. I met them in 1999, in a dancing school, they were learning to be this kind of ballet dancers… and finally stopped when they were 10. They’re now 14. Sometime Estelle looks like Helene, sometime Helene looks like Estelle… They are so different, they attitude toward the word is totally different. I photographed them more than 12 times. Estelle and Helene have never been from this kind of family where mum try to make the twins looking the same, wearing the same jacket at school… And always, they’ve tried to be as different as possible, to be unique and independant. And still, they always stay together, whitch make sense.

Un corps d’armée

25 mai 2005

There’s a big common point between this image and the Double Nelson series about french wrestler… all these sports were bodies create together a unity, and once can find the same state of things in the way that a group of legionnaires are working together… In french, we talk about « un corps d’armée »… meaning that all the bodies together are finally only once, stronger and united. Still if it’s fake and somehow synthetic, this feeling do really exists. In the Double Nelson book, Bill Kowenhoven wrote: « The interaction of wrestlers’ bodies, their fused proximity and manoeuverings, seems to create a new species of thick-bodies, two headed quadrupeds »: This time, it’s 16.

Jeanne d’Arc

2 mai 2005

Here’s a new project… something I’ll purchase for several years: Every year in Orleans, a new « Jeanne d’Arc », symbole and fundamental myth of the french society, is elected by the comitee of the city of Orleans, in the center of France. This young woman is supposed to be a positive example for the other teenagers of her generation: a good way of life, healthy, good behaviour, good customs. This Jeanne d’Arc is a non politic one, belonging to the long tradition of french popular event. Next one next year

Opening at the Moving gallery/spazy

30 avril 2005

Was a good opening at the Moving gallery/spazy multipli last thursday… It was my first exhibition in Roma. My last projects in Italy were the Palio series in 2002-2003, commissioned by the city council of Ferrara… and a shooting with a football team of milanian strong women… So, this Rikishi exhibition is a good start for a new kind of collaboration with Ilaria Marotta and Memi Crimi Borromeo d’Adda of the Moving Gallery.

Beijing made me a strange impression…

26 avril 2005

Beijing made me a strange impression…Here’s one of the images of the « Opera » series made at the middle school of the Opera of Beijing. Actually, the Opera is like the expected postcard of Beijing, something dealing with traditions, with a certain respect of rules, something also politic…

This background is older than my dad…

26 avril 2005

this background is older than my dad… used by the Opera for the shows abroad or all over china… since the 50’s. Maybe the first time I work on a so colorful series…