LANCEMENT ET DÉDICACE AVEC SYLVIE MEUNIER – « MISTER K » – JEUDI 16 MAI À PARTIR DE 18H
17.02.1958. Mister K leaves home only to return eight months later. Eight months during which he drives across the United States, immersed in his memories, driving at a breakneck pace to what seems like the end of the world.
Sylvie Meunier has produced several projects based around vernacular photography, such as the series Avant que tu ne disparaisses (2014) or American dream (2017). By bringing images into dialogue, she weaves stories that result in visual novels that question both the photographic medium and literature.
For the project Mister K, Sylvie Meunier leads an intrigue bordering on the fantastic where a selection of black and white photographs leads to the elaboration of a first-person narrative, in text and images. The artist plays with atmospheric variations and the photographic codes of black and white, alternating deep obscurities and overexposed views, echoing the story’s plot, which oscillates between diary and flashback. The effects of visual loops create a tension that keeps the reader on the edge of his seat: what really happened? Who is this man? Why is he on the run?
In this “photographic novel”, the visual power of the images and the narrative rhythm draw the reader into a universe both strange and familiar, that of a Beat Generation America, of a golden age of Hollywood film noir.
See you Thursday May 16 for the launch and signing of Sylvie Meunier’s “Mister K”
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