La galerie Particulière presents one of Claudine Doury’s latest photo series on view through March 20th. With L’Homme Nouveau, the Agence VU’ photographer again questions the age between two and adolescence. After her series Sacha, which followed her own daughter’s passage of childhood to adulthood, Claudine Doury brings her focus to young Russian men born during the collapse of the Soviet Union. Her interior-set portraits were all taken in St. Petersburg.
A part of exhibition’s prints for this series were done by the photo lab Picto.
« I have so far photographed many young girls, expressing through them my childhood and teenage years. In this work , the few male presences always acted as extras. I am now exploring manhood in a period of transition at the end of adolescence.
When and how does a boy become a man ? What are the signs of this transformation ? How is it different from previous generations ? Questioning manhood in transition to adulthood, I raise the concepts of gender and otherness at the start of the 21st century.
I shot that series in St. Petersburg, where a new generation of Russians is coming up. These young men were born when the Soviet Union collapsed.These young Russians are sons of the new middle class workers, they are twenty years old and they are the antithesis of their elders : they come from all corners of Russia and chose St. Petersburg as a place to start their new lives.
They are at odds with the inertia of Russia, they are modern, open to art and culture, connected with the rest of the planet, and they reshuffle the codes of a moving world.
This new series is about these young Russian men in a fast changing society, where manhood, virility and self-image revisits the traditional vision of genders.This new «modern man» in the process of emerging over there bear witness to the changes of our time. »
Claudine Doury
EXPOSITION
L’Homme nouveau
Claudine Doury
Du 4 février au 20 mars 2016
Galerie Particulière
16 & 11 rue du Perche
75003 Paris
France
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