Act
Started in 2009 and finalized in 2011, Act is the result of a long term work in collaboration with disabled people.
Though some of them are actors, athletes and dancers, each have asserted their individuality far beyond the assigned label of disability.
Denis Darzacq tried to go beyond the right-thinking, compassionate attitude that this subject is usually met with, while avoiding any kind of gratuitousness and voyeurism. Yet the artist is well aware of the difference created by the handicap. He even makes it visible. Sometimes in an obvious way, when he decides, in agreement with the person, to remove the wheelchair and place them in a situation that gives an unconventional image of the body.
Sometimes the difference seems infinitesimal. It gives way to the assertion of a mental world, infused with the spontaneity and sometimes the eccentricity of the models. Like in the series La Chute and Hyper, the models are asked to freely perform movements that may appear meaningless, but are creating profoundly dreamlike situations.
DETAILS
26 colour prints
Format :
4 prints size 30 x 40 cm
20 prints size 94,5 x 130 cm
2 prints size 109,5 x 130 cm
Chateau Thierry – 2015
Chateau Thierry – 2015
Chateau Thierry – 2015
New York – 2012
New York – 2012
New York – 2012
CONTACT
Patricia MORVAN
Responsable de projets culturels
et des expositions
morvan@abvent.fr
+33 1 53 01 85 89
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Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint Lazare, 75009 Paris
+33 1 53 01 85 85
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