Lot n° 75
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60 - 100
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* Fred MELIANI (20th–21st centuries) - Lot 75
* Fred MELIANI (20th–21st centuries)
Vintage, 1999
Black-and-white photograph
Titled, dated, and signed on the back of the frame with an autographed inscription: “Dear friend, in memory of the ‘Black and Red’ years… 12/27/07.”
View size: 27 x 27 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 ad published in the newspaper *Libération* in 2001, the artist photographed hundreds of strangers, asking them to portray a fictional state of mind 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 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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