cutlog #7 at Hôtel Particulier Montmartre, Nov11-12 - off Paris Photo 2016

cutlog is back with its 7th edition, at the secluded destination of the Hôtel Particulier Montmartre.
23 avenue Junot 75018 Paris

Curators: Neil Atherton, Olivier Bassuet of Art Bridge, Florence Bellaïche, cutlog director Bruno Hadjadj of Spree, Stéphane Lebenson, Roberta Molin Corvo, Virginie Puertolas-Syn, Melissa Unger of Seymour Projects, and myself.

I will show photographs and videos by the following artists:

Jonas Unger, Paris

Chochotte is a historical erotic theatre where amateur girls perform in handmade costumes. The theatre is in a small medieval basement in the Paris Latin Quarter, the last of its kind. It is in a financially precarious situation and risks closing. Unlike common strip clubs, Chochotte offers a pure theatre experience, with no drinks sold, and the audience sitting close to the action and each other. The images were taken during rehearsals on sensitive grainy film, using only the lights of the club.

Frédéric Lebain, Paris
Mutant Stage, 2016, with editor Grégoire Pedron
The aesthetics of pole dancers as ballet, inside the Galeries Lafayette Foundation.

Winnie Denker, Paris

The Danish photographer had documented 80's USA for Time-Life's Library of Nations: The United States.

Each print is available in a very limited edition. The technical superior quality of her work allows spectacular treatments, from classical platinum or gold prints to her famed sizeable light boxes.

Jerome Sainte-Rose, São Paulo

Os Mascarados: the Pirenopolis cavalhadas in medieval costumes, in the state of Goias, reenact every year Charlemagne's battle of the Christians against the Moors. The working class Indian curucucus take possession of the town.

Karine Laval, New York
State of Flux I, 2013: man’s struggle with nature and the uncertainty of the human experience.
State of Flux II, 2014
Heterotopia, 2016: in collaboration with Hermès, photographed in various private and public gardens in the United States and Europe. The distortions, super-impositions and colors were created in camera and with reflective surfaces. The colors express a world in mutation, psychedelic and post-natural.

Li Yu 李郁 + Liu Bo 刘波, Wuhan
Slow Shutter 慢门, 2013-2016: reenacting local minor crimes in Wuhan, in photography and video since the 2000s, exploring the absurdity of fast urban development.
12 videos 1” each, 3rd edition.
13 Months in the Year of the Dog 狗年十三个月 2006 and The Victim 受害者 2007 series: prints 122x152.4cm, editions of 10; or 61x61cm.
Wuzi & Jichou Year's Lightning 戊子己丑霹雳火 2008-2009 series, sets of 24 prints: 122x152.4cm, editions of 10; or 61x76.2cm, editions of 30.

楚天金报 2011-05-15 Chutian Golden News无聊男纵火引燃三处垃圾桶 昨日，解方大道上
相距200米的两座人行天桥，以及两桥之间公交车站旁，三个垃圾桶在十分钟内先后失火。
目击者称，系一无聊男子纵火所为。
A man set fire and ignited three trashcans out of boredom.

 楚天都市报 2011-03-14
 Chutian Metropolis Daily女子开车敷面膜吓坏过路司机
 昨日上午
9时30分，记者乘采访车外出采访经过武昌东亭二路省文联门口时，司机突然一个急刹车，目瞪口呆望着开过去的一辆红色小轿车，吓得说不出话。
原来那辆车上的女司机敷着面膜在开车。对此，相关交警提醒：爱美没有错，但安全最重要。
A woman driver with facial mask shocked passing drivers.
Traffic police warned that safety is prior to beauty.

楚天都市报 2011-5-1 Chutian Metropolis Daily
老人倒下之际奋力扔出白衬衣求救 前晚，家住在蔡甸公园新村的七旬李爹爹外出寻找12岁的孙子，走到树藩大街，突发心脏病，瘫倒之际他奋力将脱下的白衬衣扔到马路上，被好心人发现后获救。
An old man tossed out his white shirt for help. Mr. Li, a senior man over seventy went out to look for his 12-year-old grandson and had a heart attack.
He was rescued by kind-hearted folk.

楚天金报 2011-08-17 Chutian Golden News
不堪受虐 发妻清晨铁锤杀夫
 据指控，王某2004年与吴某结婚后常遭受其虐打，
产生了报复心理。今年3月11日晚，王某将安棉药磨碎装入丈夫常吃的胶囊药内，哄骗丈夫喝下。第二天清晨，王某拿起铁锤，朝还没睡醒的吴某猛击。后王某到派出所投案，当民警赶到其租住的公寓内时，发现吴某已死亡。
Wife killed husband with hammer for unbearable maltreatment. She filled her husband’s capsules with mashed sleeping pills. She's surrendered herself to the police.

Skeet.Rob, Taipei

Artificial Paradise 募集媽豆中, 2011, 90x64cm 

“People in video chat rooms expose their bodies and genitalia, for pleasure and satisfaction. My lover says it is a safe act without physical contact, stranger cannot see his face. So I found a lot of different models to cooperate, shooting their masturbating facial expressions. It is absolutely universal, rather than erotic, and beyond interpretations of morality.”

"視訊聊天室上有許多人暴露自己的身體跟性器官，透過展示得到快感與滿足。我的情人說那是一種無肉體接觸的安全性行為，陌生人看不見他的臉，而他透過這種表演滿足自己的慾望，他說那不算出軌，對他而言那只是一種安全的性遊戲。於是我開始找許多不同的模特兒合作，拍攝他們自慰時的臉部表情。我只是在做一種安全無肉體接觸的性創作，我的作品看不見性器官絕對普遍級一點也不色情。所謂的尺度與道德真的如此主觀，誰說了都算。"

Sean Lee, Singapore

Young Love: "When I was 17 years old and a student, the girl sitting beside me in class passed away after a short struggle with an illness. Her name was Esther. She had stopped school for a while, but because no one knew the seriousness of her condition, we did not have the chance to say goodbye.
Today, I am a part time teacher of photography in a new media school. Looking at my students made me think about the days of my youth. I thought about the friends that I used to hang out with, the times I had fallen in love, and all the nights we spent partying. But it also made me think about Esther who died young and did not have the chance to grow up.
I photographed the students in pairs. They were either best friends or lovers. I wanted both to photograph some essence of them as individuals as well as highlight their relationship with each other.
I often tell my students that photography is a medium that teaches us above all things that our time here is brief.
Perhaps this work is a way for me to say a proper goodbye to my youth, and to my friend, Esther."

Bum Ariffin, Singapore

This is the End, 2009: a historical concert at the famed Substation, a Chinese, Malay and Indian battle between rappers and punk rockers.


Other artists: Arnie, Bruno Aveillan, Carole Bellaïche, Harvey Benge, Vanya Balogh, Scarlett Coten, Michael Cole, Olivier Coulange, Brice Dossin, Claire Glorieux, Bruno Hadjadj, Rafael Y. Herman, Roman Hill, Michael Huard, Nyong Ho Lee, Paul Mignot, Erica Nyholm, Ekin Ornat, Emanuele Ravagnami, Romain Rivière, Maija Savoleina Chris Saunderrs, Yoval Shaul, Thomas Smith, Catherine Talese, Daniele Tedeschi, Ludovic Vallognes, Marie Vic, Cornelis Van Voorthuizen.