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Hyper 16
2007
Denis Darzacq
Photography
95 x 130 cm
Gelatin-silver print on aluminium
The Hyper series develops the aesthetic of weightlessness introduced in La Chute (The Fall). Levitating bodies are juxtaposed with crammedfull supermarket shelves. In this context, the leap, a gratuitous gesture, may be interpreted as an act of resistance against the consumer society.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
The Hyper series develops the aesthetic of weightlessness introduced in La Chute (The Fall). Levitating bodies are juxtaposed with crammedfull supermarket shelves. In this context, the leap, a gratuitous gesture, may be interpreted as an act of resistance against the consumer society.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Denis Darzacq
France
Born in 1961
Born 1961 in Paris
Lives and works in Paris.
He has acted as unit photographer for film directors Chantal Ackerman and Jacques Rivette, made video clips for a hundred or so musicians, from Rita Mitsouko to Etienne Daho, and worked for years as a photojournalist for the French newspaper Libération. Informed by this intense professional activity and pictorial influences as diverse as Pop Art, Italian Mannerist painting and Japanese mangas, Denis Darzacq combines social documentary photography and artistic mise en scène in his exuberant snapshots on the theme of bodily movement in urban areas.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Lives and works in Paris.
He has acted as unit photographer for film directors Chantal Ackerman and Jacques Rivette, made video clips for a hundred or so musicians, from Rita Mitsouko to Etienne Daho, and worked for years as a photojournalist for the French newspaper Libération. Informed by this intense professional activity and pictorial influences as diverse as Pop Art, Italian Mannerist painting and Japanese mangas, Denis Darzacq combines social documentary photography and artistic mise en scène in his exuberant snapshots on the theme of bodily movement in urban areas.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Artworks of
Denis Darzacq
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