Lu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. (more…)
Born in Roubaix, I grew up in the northern region riddled with the stigma of industrial decline, mired in its different social strata.
Arrived in Lyon in 2010 with a camera, an object still unknown, I found this environment heavy and cut off from humanity, through industry abandoned by a trend, the religion that ages while remaining, the urbanism that immobilize man.
Between the distorted perceptions of everyday urban life and its countryside, a collective unconscious has been formed, haunted by the idea of death. Paradoxes and subtleties of this exacerbated reality often escape our attention. The cliché no longer shows a surface, but an inner reality where a few ounces of life still pulsate. Through decrepit architecture, intensive urban planning, abandoned places, delivered to the onslaught of nature that captures them with a fascinating disdain, we are marked by these raw forms, the clinical spirit, the air of torpor that emanates of everything. It may be a reflection of our own society, resigned, who would have delighted in its fears.
Traveling from Brussels to Lyon in search of industrial, hospitable, and religious specters, my shots are coupled with a reflection on death, embodied by this old Thanatos and his irresistible encumbrance.
I am currently working on a booklet collecting photos and texts around this theme. This publication reports on a research on the deconstruction of the feeling of death, through the motive and the perspective, under the prism of a physical and philosophical reflection.
Around this photographic universe, linked to writing, focused on this search for “active concentrates” of life / death, I also work around the image to emphasize its realness. I retrieve its lines, its tone, and work the framing of photographs. This recovery and rehabilitation of death in the present, close the ring, literally as well as figuratively, this work on the reconciliation of the human with its future past.
Lu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. (more…)
Tubes, chains, and wires seem to resemble organic contraptions as they loop, glide, and snake around and into each other. These appliances are stiff or pliable when tension is applied, moving slowly yet fitfully. The water, oil, and grime flowing all around emphasizes the angular rigidity of the metal (more…)
Artist and poet Sal Taylor Kydd announces the release of Yesterday, a limited edition artist book produced in conjunction with Datz Press, that explores the feelings of isolation and dislocation brought on by the pandemic (more…)
Marc Lagrange (1957-2015) was born in Kinshasa, Congo. His career path led him from engineering to photography, and his creativity from fashion to art. (more…)
Prager’s works are in collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Kunsthaus Zürich, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Sons of Cain, written and directed by Keti Stamo, is set in a small village in northern Albania. In this place, time is suspended and the severe rules of an old code, Kanun, still dictate the life and death of the inhabitants.. (more…)
Over the last two decades, Nairy Baghramian has created sculptures, photographic works and drawings that explore the relationships between architecture, everyday objects, and the human body. (more…)
22:22 tells the story of Tom Sietas, who in 2012 set a world record at that time of twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds in Static Apnea, the ability to hold one’s breath underwater. (more…)