Stéphane CHAVANIS: Photographs - conceptual art

Stéphane CHAVANIS: Photographs the Flesh, text David le Breton

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Photo The flesh - Text David LE BRETON
           
 

Stéphane CHAVANIS: Photographs the Flesh, text David le Breton Fig VII

 

These women are bodies only in a particular perspective which turns the viewer into a disappointed voyeur or a judge. The risk is, of course, that if he expresses his discomfort or disgust, he might be asked what appearance he offers to the world as far as beauty or ugliness are concerned, especially if he is naked. I imagine that our judge would reply with the voice of outraged innocence that he would never lower himself so far as to pose in the nude. But then, he is forgetting the image he shows to others in the intimacy of sex, for example, on beaches or elsewhere. Being naked is always a symbolic equivalent to being killed. It therefore requires to be recognized as an act of courage. The same thing goes for artists who expose themselves through the angle they choose to address their subject. Aesthetics are always ethics at work. The voyeur takes no risk, apart from judging the other only from his appearance. But generally, he is spared any comments from others since he stands in the shadows, where courage has no place. Better then to say nothing and to see in those women a mirror of what we are.

 
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