Jean-Luc Moulène is one of the most important photographers working in the documentary style today, while his sculptural production was revealed at the Centre Pompidou in 2017. He is a ferocious critic of neoliberalism and the social relations it engenders. He uses scenes of daily life and other genre images (landscapes, portraits and still lifes) to “signify the value of things without promoting them.” For his scandalous sequence LesFilles d’Amsterdamshown in 2005 a [...]
Jean-Luc Moulène is one of the most important photographers working in the documentary style today, while his sculptural production was revealed at the Centre Pompidou in 2017. He is a ferocious critic of neoliberalism and the social relations it engenders. He uses scenes of daily life and other genre images (landscapes, portraits and still lifes) to “signify the value of things without promoting them.” For his scandalous sequence LesFilles d’Amsterdamshown in 2005 at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, he melded a pair of styles together, the descendants of two photographic inventions: the mug shots of Alphonse Bertillon and the erotic stereoscopic photos of Auguste Belloc. OSMOSCOSMOS presents his video Les Trois Grâces. Three sisters move in slow motion against the horizon, proclaiming the joy of being alive while raising the subject of beauty in its complexity, dynamics and change. We sense Dionysus, and also Aphrodite, in this quest for excess.