{"id":11298,"date":"2016-04-07T16:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2016-10-10T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:54:34","slug":"alain-polo-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/alain-polo-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alain Polo – Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHOTO - Visual Art<\/h3>\n

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born in\u00a01985 in Kinshasa, D.R.Congo<\/p>\n

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lives and works in\u00a0Paris<\/p>\n

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Alain Polo is an artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa. He was a member of a group called SADI (Artists Solidarity for Integral Development). Their collective work focuses on performance in popular districts of Kinshasa and the \"village of erosion\" of Mont Gafula whose houses are collapsing every big rain. They paint on insulated walls and houses on the verge of collapse. Photographs, performances, video creation are the main carriers of Alain Polo, do not hesitate to have fun with fashion.<\/p>\n

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Alain Polo first photographic series made in 2008-2009 (\u2019Jeune Homme \u00e0 la Veste\u2019 2008, \u2019Le Dormeur\u2019 2009, \u2019My Sweet Drawing\u2019 2009, \u2019Talon Aiguille\u2019 2009), are a work of self-portrait reveals an intimate moment of doubt about his identity. He will wait 2 years before daring to show these photographs and, somehow, accept his own reality, even if he loves his self image.<\/p>\n

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    Framing photographs leave see body parts dislocated in the dark atmosphere of the room barely unveiled. Some ceremonial elements and everyday objects approach an imagined reality, often taking an imaginary world he saw in magazines.<\/p>\n

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    Reflections in broken mirrors of its own upset picture open on other vertigo that Congolese society does not always understand.<\/p>\n

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    He continues his work by transforming images of social networks where he seems to recognize itself. In a more recent work he puts in confrontation of right-thinking society objects with to his phantasms.<\/p>\n

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    Under the appearance of a young calm and cheerful man, Alain Polo reveals a troubled soul he wants to release.<\/p>\n

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    by Jean Loup Pivin<\/p>\n

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    Exhibitions, performEnces<\/h2>\n

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    2010 exhibit\u00a0 'Tozo kend\u00e9 Wapi\u00a0? To Ko Kend\u00e9 Wapi\u00a0?' (O\u00f9 allons-nous\u00a0? O\u00f9 irons-nous\u00a0?\u00a0), collective project 'Afropolis'\u00a0at\u00a0Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne,\u00a0Germany<\/p>\n

    2010 collective exhibit 'Sud-Paris' \u00a0at REVUE NOIRE, photographs, Paris, France<\/p>\n

    2010 art residency at Doual'Art, Douala Cameroon.\u00a0Performences 'La coiffure qui nettoie' et 'Le dernier repas'<\/p>\n

    2010 collective exhibit 'Alienator on Tour'\u00a0at\u00a0Centre Culturel Fran\u00e7ais. Performence 'Robe Free Chiken', Kinshasa, D.R.Congo<\/p>\n

    2010 performance 'Couvre-Moi', during event 'The Brave New World' at Theater der Welt, Essen,\u00a0Germany<\/p>\n

    2010\u00a0art residency during\u00a0event 'The Brave New World' and performance 'Couvre-Moi', Guangzhou, Chine<\/p>\n

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