Clement Huylenbroeck’s Wallonie as been added to the collection This is Not a Map, which celebrates the encounter between a photographer and a place. These fake maps, printed on original paper, combine the pleasure of the object with the pleasure of the photograph, taking viewers on a narrative, subjective and highly seductive journey.
Following Texas, Las Vegas, Orlando and Fort Mahon, Wallonie and is the fifth entry in the series from the young publisher Poetry Wanted. Huylenbroeck’s photographic journey owes something to the derisive humor of Martin Parr.
« The beauty pageant candidates live the affordable dream. With their feverish performances and tartar free smiles, they can almost grasp it. Facing a crowd of excited eyes, they bend their bodies at the behest of an improvised choreographer. They surrender their hair, their flesh, their nails and their naivety to a cheap champagne-soaked audience poorly dressed up in its Sunday best. The attempt is beautiful; during the time of a pale performance inspired by the National Miss parade, they fantasize, imagine themselves the flagship of elegance. It is carried away by this vision that they curve themselves yet a bit more and make pants swell. At the end of the night, the communal dream turns into a heartbreak, a hurtful disenchantment; the bulging eyes turn away, the mouths hereafter drool for another. »
Clement Huylenbroeck
http://www.clementhuylenbroeck.com
Né en 1988, Clément Huylenbroeck vit et travaille à Bruxelles.
EDITION
Wallonie de Clement Huylenbroeck
Collection This is not a map
Editions Poetry wanted, 2014.
Format déplié 155 cm x 100 cm
Prix 16 euros
En vente sur www.thisisnotamap.com et dans une sélection de librairies
EXHIBITION
Circulation(s), le festival de la jeune photographie européenne
Du 24 janvier au 8 mars 2015
CENTQUATRE
5 rue Curial
75019 Paris
http://www.festival-circulations.com/Serie-Communal-dream
CONTRIBUTOR
Severine Morel
[email protected]
http://blinks.photography
