LE CABINET D'AMATEUR GALLERY - PARIS
"dreamlands" photographie impression digitale - 8 exemplaires
COLLECTIV'STRIP TEASES
Vernissage le jeudi 29 novembre à partir de 18 heures
Exposition du 29 novembre au 30 décembre 2012
Le Cabinet d'Amateur
12 rue de la Forge Royale 75011 Paris
http://www.lecabinetdamateur.com
Avec Arnaud Boisramé Patricia Erbelding Joanna Flatau Patrick Jannin Hélène Lhote Tristan des Limbes Paul Martin Miss.Tic Mr. Lolo Ricardo Mosner Paella Simon Pradinas Jean-Marc Scanreigh Tony Soulié...
Dreamlands
"C’est à New York en 2004 que j’ai commencé cette série de photographies sur les parcs d’attraction, la presqu’île de Cosney Island se situe au sud de Brooklyn et c’est là qu’en 1903 Luna Park et Dreamland ont vu le jour.
La Foire du Trône et le Jardin des Tuileries à Paris, les fêtes foraines du nord de la France et les parcs d’attraction de Bakken et de Tivoli au Danemark viendront ensuite.
J’y vois une condensation de l’expression de nos désirs, pulsions, phantasmes, liés à notre histoire et à notre imaginaire sur un espace urbain bien délimité et qui nous interroge sur notre relation au plaisir, à la nostalgie de l’enfance, aux paradis perdus.
Il existe un synonyme en anglais pour dreamland : never-never land, qui exprime assez bien l’atmosphère de mélancolie et d’abandon qui se dégage de ces univers pourtant dédiés à notre seul plaisir.
Dreamlands sont des pays qui n’existent que dans notre imaginaire et dans nos rêves, ils se transforment en no-man’s land dès que les lumières se sont éteintes."
"It’s in New York during 2004 that I started this series of photographs on the amusement parks, Coney Island situated south of Brooklyn is the place where Luna Park and Dreamland were first built in 1903.
The “Foire du Trône” and the Tuileries gardens in Paris, the funfairs of the north of France and the Danish amusement parks Bakken and Tivoli follow.
I can see there a condense from the expression of our desires, pulsions, phantasms, linked to our history and to our imaginary within an urban delimited space. It questions our relation to pleasure, to nostalgia of childhood, to lost paradise.
There is a synonym for Dreamland : the Never-Never Land, which expresses quite well the atmosphere of melancholia and abandon that is projected by this environment despite it being dedicated to our sole pleasure.
Dreamlands are realms only existing in our imaginary and dreams, they transform into no-man’s lands as soon as the lights are extinguished."
"It’s in New York during 2004 that I started this series of photographs on the amusement parks, Coney Island situated south of Brooklyn is the place where Luna Park and Dreamland were first built in 1903.
The “Foire du Trône” and the Tuileries gardens in Paris, the funfairs of the north of France and the Danish amusement parks Bakken and Tivoli follow.
I can see there a condense from the expression of our desires, pulsions, phantasms, linked to our history and to our imaginary within an urban delimited space. It questions our relation to pleasure, to nostalgia of childhood, to lost paradise.
There is a synonym for Dreamland : the Never-Never Land, which expresses quite well the atmosphere of melancholia and abandon that is projected by this environment despite it being dedicated to our sole pleasure.
Dreamlands are realms only existing in our imaginary and dreams, they transform into no-man’s lands as soon as the lights are extinguished."
Patricia Erbelding