Éric Alcyon presents the new version of his photographic series Utopia II. This series focuses on the economic crisis of Greek sovereign debt.
Born in 1968, Eric Alcyon discovered photography while studying in Quebec, continued at the University of Paris 8-Vincennes, accompanied by commissions and exhibitions, notably at the Mai de la photographie de Reims with a series entitled Hypermarché which shows his interest in the “Thatcher years photographers” such as Martin Parr and especially Nick Waplington. Settled in London, he entered the Central Saint Martin College of Art and Design, broadening his field of action to include the Fine arts, including installation. His first monumental project, Marble (1.60×3.40×1.30m) was completed in Greece in 2012. Between 2011 and 2014, he lived in the Cyclades where he produced four photographic series called Utopia on the Greek economic crisis. Back in Paris, he deploys a polymorphic practice of the image as evidenced by the critical appropriationism of the series Star Trek à Salo published in L’Œil de la photographie.
This return saw the first part of Indifférence publique exhibited at La Maison du Geste et de l’Image in 2020. Supported by a grant from the C.N.A.P., he produced the second part in London in 2022, presented Paris under attack at La Réserve, and the series Zones de fret in the group exhibition Rencontres urbaines at the Espace Voltaire. The installation Je vous l’avais bien dit… was shown at Artaix during the summer. He obtained a grant from the DRAC d’Île-de-France in the autumn. In 2023, he contributed in the book Inclassable by the collective Diaph8, prefaced by Dominique Baqué. He is also published in L’Œil de la photographie and awarded the Dotation Recherche ADAGP.
A collaborator of Jean-Claude Moineau since 2014, he is currently rereading and correcting his next book Pour un art invisuel, inouï, inesthétique, inœuvré, inidentitaire, pluriel…
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