Lot n° 69
Estimation :
150 - 250
EUR
* Fred MELIANI (20th–21st centuries) - Lot 69
* Fred MELIANI (20th–21st centuries)
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Black-and-white photograph mounted on Plexiglass
Label on the back, signed and titled, edition 4/7; from the "Paris sous prozac" exhibition at the Helenbeck Gallery in 2006
100 x 100 cm
Invitation card to the “Paris sous prozac” exhibition included with the purchase.
The Helenbeck Gallery in Paris is exhibiting the work of photographer Fred Meliani from November 1 through December 16, 2006. The artist, who lives between Nice and Paris, developed a project titled “Paris sous Prozac” between January and April 2001. Following an ad published in the newspaper *Libération* in 2001, the artist photographed hundreds of strangers, asking them to portray a fictional state linked to the hypothetical ingestion of “the happiness pill.”
In various locations throughout the capital (Rue Royale, Porte de La Chapelle, Champs de Mars, etc.), the artist acts as a director of a “public-actor” who improvises, invents, imagines, and questions his or her own story. In scenes of personal and intimate life that take on a fantastical and strange quality, the originality of the artist’s approach lies in inserting these “unusual” behaviors into urban and public spaces, thereby questioning the frenzy and pressure of our societies.
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