MISTER K

<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 a number of projects based on vernacular photography, including the series Avant que tu ne disparaisses (2014) and American dream (2017), in which she creates a dialogue between images and tells stories. The result are visual novels that question both the photographic medium and literature.

For the Mister K project, the artist started from an initial selection of N&B photographs to elaborate a first-person narrative, in text and images. The collection of photographs feeds into the writing process and vice versa, culminating in a fictional narrative in which Sylvie Meunier maintains a sense of suspense. She 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 graphic rhythm and scansion of the text underpin the entire work. 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 running away? The notion of time disintegrates, memory blurs.

In this “photographic novel”, where images alternate with textual incisions, Sylvie Meunier leads an intrigue bordering on the fantastic. Genres mingle to create a singular work: at once a book of photographs, a literary narrative, cinematographic fiction, psychological investigation… The visual power of the images and the narrative rhythm conducted in the mode of “I” draw the reader into a universe that is both strange and familiar, that of Beat Generation America, of a golden age of Hollywood film noir.

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