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  • Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Olivier Valsecchi, Time of War 3, 2013

    Olivier Valsecchi French, b. 1979

    Time of War 3, 2013
    Series: Time of War
    C-Type print
    120 x 120 cm
    47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
    Edition of 3
    70 x 70 cm
    27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in
    Edition of 7
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    FRANÇAIS CI-DESSOUSIncarnation remains the main theme in Valsecchi's oeuvre. Thus he decided to dive into his DUST series once again, whilst adding a parameter to it: a soul of their...
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    FRANÇAIS CI-DESSOUSIncarnation remains the main theme in Valsecchi's oeuvre. Thus he
    decided to dive into his DUST series once again, whilst adding a
    parameter to it: a soul of their own. Deliberately choosing to set the
    second part of his "I AM DUST" saga in a former arms factory, this
    autobiographic project is on the theme of incarnation and Samsara.
    Whereas the first part illustrated the photographer's cosmology, TIME OF
    WAR liberates those chaos-spawned creatures. The title, inspired by the
    Prado Museum's 2008 Exhibition : GOYA in Times of War, which
    commemorated the War of Independance, equally portrays this crying-out
    for emancipation. From then on, Characters have a history, and are out
    to conquer. Their bodies tense, each mote of muscle tissue contracts
    itself, shoulders heave. The primeaval ash, this very element which has
    transiently crossed through the cycles of life and death, seems to burst
    out in an explosion of effort, unless this be the final agonizing
    breath of these Ovidian heroes. This is about survival.
    __________


    FRANÇAIS
    Le thème de l'incarnation reste prédominant dans l'oeuvre de Valsecchi.
    C'est ainsi qu'en 2013, il décide de reprendre l'esthétique de DUST pour
    y adjoindre un paramètre touchant à la psychologie des êtres.C'est
    directement dans une ancienne usine militaire qu'il a choisi de camper
    le second volet de sa saga I am Dust, projet autobiographique sur le
    thème de l'incarnation et du samsara. Alors que le premier illustrait la
    cosmogonie du photographe, Time of War affranchit ces êtres issus du
    chaos. Le titre, inspiré de l'exposition Goya in Times of War (musée du
    Prado, 2008) en commémoration de la Guerre d'Indépendance, sous-tend lui
    aussi cette volonté d'émancipation. Les personnages possèdent désormais
    une histoire, ils se font conquérants. Leurs corps se tendent, chaque
    centimètre de muscle se contracte, les épaules fulminent. La cendre
    primordiale, cet élément qui a traversé les cycles de la vie et de la
    mort, semble jaillir dans une explosion d'effort, à moins que cela ne
    soit l'ultime souffle de ces héros Ovidiens. "Il s'agit de survivre."
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