peregrinations_in_china

in 2018 i went 2 month in china to create a performative photographic work This serie is an exploration of how a western body, the body of a french man, can function in dynamic tension with a foreign, physical and social landscape, China. The mode of exploration is that of immersion without any pretense of having keys to unlock the deep structure of the reality about me. In this immersion, i engage in ironic play with the code of tourism and the ubiquitous seflie: the vacuous " I was here" affirmation. The core interest is to challenge the concept of photo-reality by injecting into the ever changing life i discovered in my ' journey through China' a character, physically present, but semiot...View all