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Insight into

the past

 

The memory is like future: imprecise.

In 2014 my family home is about to be sold.

Back in these places with my camera and through a unique character, I stage memories:

Those that mark, those that we transform, those that we support.

Through allegory, I am talking about the weight of family baggage, aspirations of an isolated teenager, beings that we meet and which we remember well or little.

Sometimes I replace the images in the stage to show that memory is fading.

I found my father's old Olympus and gathered the images he had taken in the house in the 1970s. Embarking my sister and my brothers, I decided to go back to the family in order to reproduce, 45 years later, certain images with the same camera, with the same people and the same locations. The places have changed, some people have disappeared, others were born. It's like a journey through time and in the margin, the invisible that the beings are been formed with.

J.D. Beauvallet, co-founder of Les Inrockuptibles :

 

"Talking to Anne Kuhn is reminiscent of many other discussions with women similarly built on a fault line. 

PJ Harvey, Björk or Catpower, women in rupture, also under construction, say in music what Anne Kuhn secretly says in her photos. The similarity of speech is disturbing, between these women who have chosen action, because it is louder than words."

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©copyright 70's pictures : Jakesa Artola Vallée & Olivier Kuhn

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