Bruno Boudjelal — Algérie, clos comme on ferme un livre ?
Musée Nicéphore Niepce
28 quai des Messageries – 71100 Chalon-sur-Saône
Du 20 octobre 2012 au 27 janvier 2013
The Nicéphore Niepce museum displays Bruno Boudjelal’s last work on Algeria. Started a search for his roots in the 1990s, Bruno Boudjelal discovered a country hurt by recent political events. With the support of the museum, he went back there for the three last years, to continue his pictorial narrative, and to bring it face to face with writers and journalists, witnesses of the complex and daily reality of the country.
“It is understandable that others may not have had other solutions than to return to their birth country. It is commonplace: one foot in, one foot out, always limping, the journey to the country is inevitably a sentimental one. Deception is never far away when we recount a personal experience. From the original wound, to now regular trips, Bruno Boudjelal has appointed himself the narrator to his own story. Curiosity and constant doubt lie just behind the surface of each image. It is not so much the return and the reunion rather than the anxiety about throwing oneself in the superficial that has led the photographer towards his carefully chosen locations. The man, more than the photographer, is, perhaps, on the quest of a singuliar story, but above all, he is searching for respectable men. If he hits the road, it is with the firm will to fight the present rather than the past.”
François Cheval
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