Laurence Cornet selected the exhibition Amitié Eternelle by Anouck Durand.
On the ground floor of the Bureau des Lices in Arles, the darkness is pierced by the glow of visitors’ flashlights as they pore over Anouck Durand’s photo novel, published by Xavier Barral last May.
The scene is set with a poster of the almighty Mao. Beijing, 1970: the People’s Republic and communist Albania enjoy, “an eternal friendship, solid like granite.” This is what we read in the first images/pages of this exhibition.
A survey of the iconography of the Enver Hoxha years in communist Albania, Amitié Éternelle tells the story of three photographers who spent four months in China on an official mission: to learn a colorization process that would supposedly do justice to the greatness of their leaders and their industry.
Read the full article on the French version of The Eye.
EXHIBITION
Amitié éternelle
Anouck Durand avec Refik Veseli, Pleurat Sulo et Katjusha Kumi
In part of Rencontres d’Arles
From July 7th to August 31st, 2014
Bureau DesLices
13200 Arles
France
