D’ARGILE by Laurence Leblanc

Laurence Leblanc’s artist’s object was shaped around the series “D’ARGILE”, the result of meticulous photographic work, taking as its subject small clay figurines modelled as witnesses to the atrocities of the Cambodian genocide. The artist uses the principle of reversal of scale and seriality to make these faces, smaller than the nail on the thumb, into real portraits. However, to question the value of a unique and singular life in the widespread atrocity, Laurence Leblanc does not give in to the systematism that characterises mug shots and toys with a new photographic device. The appearance of a disproportionate human hand or the vision of two figurines seeming to support each other are all striking images that question in a different way.

15 signed and numbered copies.