Ce qu’il reste de dimanches
[What Remains of Sundays / How Many Sundays Left Remain]
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Series in progress, entered into the public collection of contemporary art of Seine-Saint-Denis in 2021. The artist presents here the genesis of this same series begun in 2008, when the global financial crisis granted him a reprieve from his overwhelmed life as a "dynamic executive" and plunged the savings and future projects of thousands of people into the 'oversight. The question that drives it is that of what counts, of the free pleasures that mark our minds, beyond generations and fashions, and paradoxically of what marks our environment with indelible pollution accelerated by financial cycles.
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Série in progress, entrée dans la collection publique d’art contemporain de Seine-Saint-Denis en 2021. L’artiste présente ici la genèse de cette même série commencée en 2008, lorsque la crise financière mondiale lui octroie un sursis de temps dans sa vie de « cadre dynamique » débordée et plonge les économies et projets d’avenir de milliers de personnes dans l’oubli. La question qui l’anime est celle de ce qui compte, des plaisirs libres qui marquent nos esprits, par-delà les générations et les modes, et paradoxalement de ce qui marque notre environnement d’une pollution indélébile et accélérée par les cycles financiers.
Untitled [The Seine in February]
Series “Ce qu’il reste de dimanches” [What remains of Sundays], February 2021
Analog photography, silver-gelatin handprint, Baryta paper
Dimensions 30x40cm
Unique edition of 1 + 1 artist proof
Untitled [January, March, April, May, June, July, September, October]
Series “Ce qu’il reste de dimanches” [What remains of Sundays], 2021
Analog photography, analog color handprint, paper 220g
Dimensions 30x40cm each
Unique edition of 1 each + 1 artist proof each
Untitled [My girl]
Series “Ce qu’il reste de dimanches” [What remains of Sundays], October 2021
Digital photography, analog color print, paper 220g
Dimensions 30x40cm
Unique edition of 1 each + 1 artist proof each
Show view, Public Commssion “Respirations”, 2021
Show view, Public Commssion “Respirations”, 2021
Barbara Portailler standing by her photograph “Ce qu’il reste de dimanches” [Les Vendeurs de brochettes], 2021, silver-gelatin print by Stéphane Cormier, 100x150 cm. Restitution show of the Public Photography Commission “Respirations. Chroniques de Seine-Sait-Denis” (c) Marcela Barrios Hernandez, 2021