Following his three stays in residency in Shanghai, from 2010 to 2012, French photographer Alain Delorme presents a major retrospective of his work. In his Totems series he explores a booming city through the loads of urban materials carried by the locals.
Following his three stays in residency in Shanghai, from 2010 to 2012, French photographer Alain Delorme presents a major
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retrospective of his work from October, 27 to December, 1 at the Magda Danysz Gallery. After numerous exhibitions this year,
including his participation at the Vevey Images Festival in September 2012, this retrospective is an opportunity to see for the first
time ever the complete Little Dolls series and the eighteen pieces of the Totems series done in Shanghai.
Alain Delorme practices "pixel surgery". In his Little Dolls photographs, he transforms the images of young girls to question their
identity. In his Totems series he explores a booming city through the loads of urban materials carried by the locals. Totems was
made in Shanghai and completed in 2012, it presents a critical view of the complexity of society. Alain Delorme gives us an altered
reflection of society that brings to light the faults and the most surprising excesses in contemporary times.
Between the real and unreal, he stages images that shine brightly, whereby the saturated colours tend to make us forget the
subject being photographed. Art critic Raphaële Bertho says "Beyond the balance of these compositions, the author breaks the
rules of documentary genre, playing and editing of colour to give us a kind of augmented reality''.
Image: © Alain Delorme, Totem #11, courtesy Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris – Shanghai
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Opening Saturday October 27 , 2012 from 4 to 8PM
Magda Danysz Gallery
Shanghai, 188 Linqing Road (near Pingliang Road)
Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11AM to 6PM
Admission free