Alain Delorme
dal 21/1/2011 al 26/2/2011
Segnalato da
21/1/2011
Alain Delorme
Galerie Brandt, Amsterdam
In his most recent series 'Totems' (2010), the spectator is always left wondering where ends the truth and where begins the fiction. The photos were taken in the streets of Shanghai, on the occasion of two residencies.
Alain Delorme, a French photographer, born in 1979, never ceases in making us doubt. Whether with his first successful series "Little dolls"(2007), or his most recent series "Totems" (2010), the spectator is always left wondering where ends the truth and where begins the fiction. But this doubt he leaves us in is far from being a useless, stagnating one, on the contrary, Alain Delorme manages to lure his viewers into reflecting upon a wide variety of current topics, debates via his works.
"Totems", shown in Brandt gallery from January 22th to February 27th, shares with the previous series its bright comic book colours and shapes, and 'can you believe it?' effect. The photos were taken in the streets of Shanghai, on the occasion of two residencies there financed by the Ailing foundation. The viewer is immerged into a world of exaggerated accumulation, of both everyday objects and towering buildings, an accumulation that has rendered society a slave to the objects it has itself created. Yet, despite the omnipresence of material goods, Alain Delorme does not neglect individuals in his photos, quite on the contrary he focuses on them, their facial expressions, their activity, he has taken them out of the usual crowds we tend to imagine them lost in, in China. Finally, Alain has captured the physical, city translation of the economic growth Shanghai is presently undergoing, in the skyscrapers shooting up in the background, whilst not forgetting to qualify its success with the walls separating a large part of the population from it.
Image: Alain Delorme, Totem#15, foto op dibond, 80x120 cm
Opening: January 22th from 4 to 7 p.m.
Galerie Brandt
Prinsengracht 799 - Amsterdam
Opening hours: Wednesday-Saturday 11.30 a.m.–5.30 p.m.
Sunday noon–5.00 p.m.