[Press Release]

Following his three stays in residency in Shanghai, French photographer Alain Delorme presents a major retrospective of his work. After numerous exhibitions this year, including his participation at the Vevey Images Festival in September 2012, this retrospective is an opportunity to see for the first time ever the complete Little Dolls series and the eighteen pieces of the Totems series done in Shanghai.

Alain Delorme practices “pixel surgery”. In his Little Dolls photographs, he transforms the images of young girls to question their identity. In his Totems series he explores a booming city through the loads of urban materials carried by the locals. Totems was made in Shanghai and completed in 2012, it presents a critical view of the complexity of society. Alain Delorme gives us an altered reflection of society that brings to light the faults and the most surprising excesses in contemporary times.

Between the real and unreal, he stages images that shine brightly, whereby the saturated colours tend to make us forget the subject being photographed. Art critic Raphaële Bertho says “Beyond the balance of these compositions, the author breaks the rules of documentary genre, playing and editing of colour to give us a kind of augmented reality”.