MONOGRAPHS
“Privacy & Identity”
Linda Tuloup
Vol.2 / May 2016
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MONOGRAPHS Vol.2 / April 2016
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French photographer Linda Tuloup’s work revolves around the concepts of privacy and identity. She realized, after his portraits (Pink room series) in the confined space and the cozy room, a series of images called Chimère, where she explored, this time outside (forest, woodland, clearings), the nature of women. Creatures it depicts, half-human, half-animal, often move in vast landscapes, with whom they have a relationship of complicity. In these blank spaces, they are in their place, free from all restraint, giving free rein to express their innermost, revealing a primal force overlooked. Currently she works on a new series Capnomancy, still in the forest, in the middle of colored smoke , and makes reappear memories in the present.
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After obtaining a Master’s in Social Psychology, Linda Tuloup begins a radical and authentic photographic work. Her projects take the form of series which all offer a poetic view of the world. This young author affirms a very personal style throughout these series whose deleterious sensuality is always accompanied by a discrete but effective reflexion on the status of the image. Very far from the cold minimalism of contemporary photography, she supports a baroque pictorialism but no less contemporary. Her photography is charged with emotion, with senses. Everyone, and this is also one of her talents, is free to project his own desires in each image.
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CHIMERA
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Through the misty brightness of dawn, an animal’s-soul in flesh advances. We return to the kingdom of witchcraft. Photography, before being mechanical is an alchemy : living matter, movement, a game of masks and mirrors, of fusions and putrefactions. So alone on earth, we are bored with our cities and countries : forests have no mysteries, we can no longer have our throat cut by brigands, eaten up by hyenas or infernal spirits. By games of illusions and mirages, lost roads and daydreams, Linda Tuloup, by her incantations and ill fates, reveals, imposes, to our everyday life a divine reality, feline, feminine. Chimera are as much promises of distruction as of happiness, of forest fires as of bonfires. They remind us of the times when gods, humans and animals, sat side by side, were united, copulated, conspired, had children. The snake’s song has ceased, we have clothes but hardly magic. The Goddesses are in museums and nudity has never been on the streets, because we may be arrested. Perhaps we must build a temple to look at these apparitions, bow down on our knees, quaver, offer as a sacrifice bad friends and cheap romances? In the whirlwind of seasons, where do our Chimera take us? Was their resurrection desired ? Hervé Baudat
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CAPNOMANCY
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(feminine name, divination coming from a study of smoke, of its formes and colors) I had in mind a sentence of Ernest Renan “what we say about ourselves is always poetry” , and I returned to walk in the leaves, in the middle of century-old trees. After my series Chimère (Chimera), I felt that I had to go back and explore in this forest. As if it was the place of a meeting with oneself, a place of transition towards another state of being. In fairy tales, the forest appears as a space where perceptions get confused, revealing some hidden dimensions of time and consciousness. It was obvious to me that, once again, it would my experimentation room, my infinite workshop. This series would be a story told from memories. Your story, my story, our story. I proposed to every person a journey in the intimacy of its memory, in the conquest of an immense, unique, precious memory. They came to me, facing my camera lens, offering me the instant of a memory and I saw re-forming in front of me, through the fleeting smoke, the ghosts of the past, the illusions of the future. It’s a story. A story about childhood, origin, loneliness, travel, border, dreams, marriage, birth, infinity, absence, death, ... It’s a great story. The history of life. Linda Tuloup
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PINK ROOM
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All rooms look alike, but this one is pink, resembling a big theater, a chaos of words and desires. All rooms look alike, except that this one is continually crossed by a blade of light. This pink room where Linda Tuloup takes us, this room, this song, with a window on bodies. After what storm, after what shipwreak, do we arrive, spectators of these exhausted bodies, grounded, rolling, unrolling in slow waves on the sheets? All rooms look alike, all bodies assemble. Linda Tuloup, with these words - “come” - “now” - “you’re crazy” .... speaks of presences, but never shows the Other One : lovers, like all men, are phantoms. Maybe they are absent, gone on a trip, smoking a cigarette in the kitchen, going home to their wives? It’s a pink room, a hotel room, a room for life: a room for writing, a room of tears where we part and meet again, a room where the sheets are sometimes icey, sometimes torn and burning, no one knows, and so what. We are invited to take a look. Hervé Baudat
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