Winners : Shira Igell, Guillaume Onimus
Marie Quéau, "Paillasse", (2008-9)
Marie Quéau (1985) / In the so peculiar series "Paillasse"*, the youngest photographer of Photo Levallois, Marie Quéau, collects living and lifeless objects which vehicle a feeling of precariousness. Most of the 30 different-sized photographs share the same composition: a ground where is laid an object of poor value or linked to this idea of poverty, both intrinsically or "photogenically" speaking: a fragment, a thread, a dog... Damaged, fiddled, tired, all of these objects can be seen as the witnesses of a fragile and harsh routine. But these little "nothing" mutate, thanks to photography that emphasizes and / or reveal their ambivalence: the value system is subverted while the "paillasse" becomes a case. The typology instils worry if not anxiety when considering the whole series. All of a sudden, a question comes to our mind: what are these objects the clues of but our own decline?
* The artist plays with the polysemy of the word in French, meaning "straw mattress", "lab bench" or "draining board"
© Marie Quéau |
© Marie Quéau |
© Marie Quéau |
© Marie Quéau |