Jean-Robert Dantou — Objets sous contrainte
Ecole Normale Supérieure
45, rue d’Ulm — 75005 Paris
From the 13th of November to the 13th of December 2014
A bent toothbrush, a pipe, a trash bag, an engagement ring, some perfume bottles…Jean-Robert Dantou puts into perspective the usual representations of madness, with the idea that photography, by always putting forward the moments of crisis and never the everyday life, often portrays monsters and rarely human beings.
In the first part of a trilogy conducted in the psychiatric field, the photographer chose to show the objects that materialize decision-making moments and that make us enter into the life of these people described as schizophrenic, bipolar, suffering from obsessive disorders or depressive symptoms. With the idea that by moving away from the spectacular and by surpassing the stigma, the people can appear, behind the objects.
“Objets sous contrainte” is the result of a three-year dialog between the photographer Jean-Robert Dantou, and an interdisciplinary Social Sciences team coordinated by the anthropologist Florence Weber.
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Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint Lazare, 75009 Paris
+33 1 53 01 85 85
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