Samuel Fosso?
You have seen it 666 times.
His series
SixSixSix,
which aligned his face as many times as the devilish number, opened the exhibition ““ To you belongs the gaze and (…) the infinite connection between things ”” at the Musée du quai Branly between July and October 2020. And this study of human expressions, from rage to sadness, from sudden joy to melancholy, from contained suffering to brand new happiness, formed an incredibly virtuoso and moving wave of tight Polaroid.
“Like a beautiful flowing snake
,” he laughs.
This introspection is a classic in the history of art, from Rembrandt's self-portraits to the sculptures of “characters” by Swabian Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (XVIII).
In Paris, the European House of Photography (MEP) is dedicating a retrospective to this master of performance, between the mime and the transformist magician, living legend of African photography with his elders, the Malians Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé.
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