“During the Vietnam War, Marines would place an ace of spades, the ‘death card,’ on the bodies of slain Vietcong soldiers in an effort to scare any survivors… These Polaroids, kept in several boxes and collected during my reporting in the 1990s, have a similar effect on me. Famine in Rwanda, war in Iraq, American porno actresses and ex-KGB directors are chaotically piled one on top of the other. By arranging the cards in different ways, I produce striking contrasts: an emaciated African child next to sadomasochistic embalming enthusiast, a nymphomaniac Norman farmer next to a Colorado hippie who thinks he’s Jesus Christ, etc. I surprised myself with these pictures, overwhelmed by the fragility and horror of the world we live in… These are my own aces of spades.” – Yan Morvan. Paris, April 2014.
The MGF gallery is presenting an original exhibition of photojournalist Yan Morvan’s never-before-seen Polaroids. They retrace Morvan’s travels across the world, capturing its raw violence and eroticism, from the horrors of armed conflict and porn to the strange fantasies and destinies of ordinary men and women.
EXHIBITION
Schizophrenia
de Yan Morvan
July 3 – 13, 2014
Galerie MGF
13, rue de la forge-royale
75011 Paris
France
