| Marie-Hélène Le Ny |
1994 |
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| Marie-Hélène Le Ny |
1994 |
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is as the continuation in the work realized in 1993, in the City
of Refuge, that I conceived the exhibition presented in October,
94 in the same place. In 1993, the City celebrated its 60th anniversary.
To mark the event, his director asked to the group for ART the
SEINE SORTING D - association of high-Norman artists, to realize
works in touch with the place and his function of welcome of
the homeless persons. The group sought 5 other artists so that
they join him for this exhibition. We were all gathered by a
particular raising awareness to the problem which was subjected
to us. For my part, I had realized numerous pictures on the City, on its architecture of course, but also on the people who live there. This work built itself after days and days of exploration, listening and attention on the resident, and analyses of the various data. It was not either about a report or about a predation, but about a fruit of a meeting with the City and with its inhabitants. It is in the same spirit as I began a second work exposed to the City of Refuge within the framework of the 13th Art 94. It is a series of portraits of resident of the City, shown in the form of big transparent negatives. Most of the persons who live there feel excluded, thrown back or sidelining by the society. They often have difficulty in accepting such as they are, and also sometimes to accept their image. We are all concerned by the question of the identity and the difficulty frequents to become identified with itself. " I is the other one ", this other one, I cannot photograph him, but I can suggest him by giving him to see otherwise, questioning the notion of portrait and resemblance. In a portrait in negative, the identification becomes secondary, he proposes us an enigma which our codes of reading of the photographic portraits do not allow to decipher directly. He becomes necessary to grant a different attention on the image, to look at it otherwise, and there even to reconsider its model, to go to see what takes place on the other side of the mirror... This greater attention, this attentive glance, it is for what each of us expects from the other one, but more particularly still those who were kind enough to offer me their image. They wished to be considered by no means as resident of the City of Refuge, but simply as human beings. |
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