* Fred MELIANI (20th–21st centuries) - Lot 71

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* Fred MELIANI (20th–21st centuries) - Lot 71
* Fred MELIANI (20th–21st centuries) Little Sailor Black-and-white photograph mounted on Plexiglas Label signed, titled, and marked “Edition 1/3” Exhibition “Paris sous Prozac,” 2006, Helenbeck Gallery 100 x 100 cm 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 announcement published in the newspaper *Libération* in 2001, the artist photographed hundreds of strangers, asking them to portray a fictional state linked to the hypothetical consumption 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 reflects on their 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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