The French artist, actor, photographer and performer Emmanuel Barrouyer addresses these contemporary issues of gender and identity, in his work. He most often uses himself in various staged self portraits, where it appears as if he is himself, but the ambiguity of self and identity are always close by, so that portraits of Emmanuel are often not portraits at all. Emmanuel's artwork dealing with gender and identity started off in 2013 when he began to impersonate female friends, as in the pieces As Julie, and Boy's Legs. This gave him the impetus to start exploring who we are, and more importantly, who others see us as. How do others identify us? Is it real, or is it delusional. Does it help liberate us, or does it increasingly imprison us?In his Statufié! series of 2016, Emmanuel digitally encased himself within classical sculpture, playing with nudity of flesh and stone, sliding scales of interpretation and understanding. Was he producing self portraits of flesh or stone, statued men, or embodied statues? In his 2015 series U'ReInALonelySituation, Emmanuel explored desire and identity by connecting bathroom graffiti with classical sculpture. Another sliding scale of need and desire in the written scrawls on a bathroom wall, and the disconnected and remote signature of the classical statue. Desire sits within the genitals, just as it sits within the words on the bathroom wall. http://www.emmanuelbarrouyerart.com/
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Rue Gît-le-Coeur, Paris. Visite-happening-shooting (photo-vidéo) de la légendaire librairie indépendante parisienne Un Regard Moderne ( https://www.facebook.com/UnRegardModerne/ ) pour célébrer les 60 ans du mythique BEAT HOTEL, épicentre de la Beat Generation à Paris... Votre présence est un évènement ! Les lectures auront lieu à l'intérieur de la librairie (n° 10), et aussi devant le Beat Hotel (n° 9). lecture de poèmes (bilingue) avec: - STEVE DALACHINSKY (NYC): jazz poem + évocation de william burroughs -HENRIK AESHNA (Paris): "Mydriase", poème-bombe-conversation en hommage à CLAUDE PELIEU - HAIKUT-UPS (modalité poétique expérimentale inventée par Aeshna, en mélangeant haiku & cut-up), KOKAIN, en copulant Burroughs, Patti Smith, Anita Berber, Sebastian Droste, et Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux lecture de textes Beat (bilingue): - EMMANUEL BARROUYER (Paris): mashup/cut-up créé par Henrik Aeshna avec des extraits en français de Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Harold Norse, Sinclair Beiles, avec une épigraphe-évocation sur le peyote de Henri Michaux, et une intervention d'Arthur Rimbaud (Illuminations) + - JAMIKA AJALON (US) - MALIK CRUMPLER (US) Venez nombreux le 3 NOVEMBRE - entre 15h et 16h - Librairie UN REGARD MODERNE 10 Rue GÎT-LE-COEUR, PARIS 75006 Métro: SAINT-MICHEL |
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