2 Ergebnisse.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Maison européenne de la photographie (Paris, April 20th - June 18th 2017), as the preavious books in 2007 and 2013, this year's catalogue offers a great opportunity to look back over the career of a French photographer and artist whose body of work is so coherent that it seems necessary to approach it as a whole. Only then can we grasp the meaning of Martial's new series, Body ergo sum.

The artist/bodybuilder cut out photographs of his own body, bought superb butterflies from entomologists, and made wings from the in - structions for doping drugs: a playful exercise, though one that is not devoid of melancholy beneath its quirky surface. Here and there, the bodybuilder's bulky trainers seem to anchor him to the ground, hinder - ing his flight, while metal pins fix his muscular body to the suddenly claustrophobic interior of a...