About the Book
Pierre Gély-Fort’s Japanese diptychs take us on a strange journey by means of the confrontations they generate.
The photographer invents a network that is heavy with careful connotations of semantic and sexual volumes that are both ambiguous and floating.
The duality of the scenes, the merging of cultures from the past and the present enable him to structure this work as a construction between the subject and counter-subject.
These associations create a space and a time without fixed landmarks. Yet a sense of unity characterizes the heterogeneous and sometimes slightly erotic works, both in terms of their theme and content.
The artist’s constant concern is to develop a visual language that refuses all backward-looking regression.
This arises from the questioning developed in a manner that is as ironic and glamourous as it is iconoclastic.
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
Writer and critic of contemporary art
The photographer invents a network that is heavy with careful connotations of semantic and sexual volumes that are both ambiguous and floating.
The duality of the scenes, the merging of cultures from the past and the present enable him to structure this work as a construction between the subject and counter-subject.
These associations create a space and a time without fixed landmarks. Yet a sense of unity characterizes the heterogeneous and sometimes slightly erotic works, both in terms of their theme and content.
The artist’s constant concern is to develop a visual language that refuses all backward-looking regression.
This arises from the questioning developed in a manner that is as ironic and glamourous as it is iconoclastic.
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
Writer and critic of contemporary art
Features & Details
- Primary Category Arts & Photography Books
- Additional Categories Fine Art Photography, Japan
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Size
6×9 in, 15×23 cm
104 Pages -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9780464342809
- Publish Date Sep 17, 2019
- Language English
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About the Creator
Pierre Gély-Fort
Paris - Berlin