About this photograph :
Transsibérien
« During the summer of 2005, I left for a residency at the Museum of Art of Guangdong, city of Guangzhou (Canton), traveling to China by train from the north to the south, and from there, to the east. In trains (compartments, corridors, railway platforms) and in towns (hotels, restaurants, museums, parks) one new window after another opened on China before my neophyte eyes, but these were deformed, altered, subliminialized by the reflection of my imagination. Faced with a strongly architecturialized and socialized
China, I wanted to show the extraordinary journey that I took on the Transsiberian to Peking, and then the power of seduction and the astounding ambiguity of this deeply changing country which day after day drew simultaneously on the magic of its past and the revolutionary strength of its future. My aim was to deliver, in the present body of photographs, the traces, fragrances, and impressions of this both ancient and extremely contemporary China - far from the habitual documentary. » FF
About the artist :
François
Fontaine
François Fontaine was born in 1968 and lives and works in Paris. Editor in chief of the magazine "Exporama" and director of photography of the magazine "Palace," his journey as a photographer has not ceased to grow since 1991, through many press publications as well as multiples exhibitions, in France and abroad.