In Borders, Jean-Michel André explores the titular notion of boundary, limit, frontier. His research took the form of a journey that started out in the Calais Jungle on the eve of its demolition in 2016. Across the space of several square kilometers of sand and scrub, Jean-Michel André met with refugees seeking shelter. He combined these images from the Jungle with various fragments of landscapes in order to create a visual palimpsest. These silent places express division, breakup, and misery, and exude a vertiginous sense of the void. Aspirations turn to dust and smoke in these spaces where the human figure, photographed in isolation and from the back, is at a threshold between reality and imagination, memory and the present.
Bourse du Talent 2017
December 15, 2017 to March 4, 2018
Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Quai François Mauriac
75706 Paris
France
