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Little Papers 2012-2015 Winner of Magnum Showcase 2013 : Memory The on going series “Little Papers” presents a collection of small paper objects (wrapping paper, paper bags, paper receipts, paper napkins, etc.) Photographed digitally in color on white plane backgrounds. I have always been very attracted to paper in general, the way it looks, how the texture feels and most of all, the fragility of its material. Gradually, I have been collecting different kind of papers; each of them represents other a particular place, moment, action, person, etc. They are memories shaped on an ephemeral material destined to vanish. By photographing them, I infuse to the objects a new tangibility; The “Papers” reincarnate within a new kind of paper, the photographic one. Thereby, this process of redundancy draw importance to the object, by sustaining a new extends to its existence. Along with each photograph, the captions (sometime a word or a whole phrase taken out of all contexts) reveal another portion, an additional clue, to the hypothetical story partly concealed. The system involving “image + caption” functions like a montage, implying a strong notion of fiction within the whole series. The viewer is challenged in front of the work...

Initially the project began on the construction of an entirely fictional story recounting the quest of a mysterious character (Earla Brown). Around the empty and dark Canadian country side we are catching details, looking for evidence of Earla while getting lost around the empty roads and abandoned old farms. The black and white photographs communicates a feeling from a classic Hollywood film noir from the 50s, holding the viewer within the mysterious narration of Earla Brown, whereas the colours images shot in the same area transmits a different atmosphere. Exposing us to a more realistic world, showing another side of the area, a tourist trivial town made of plastic, colours sandals and miniatures. Together the series question the status of photography: An insidious medium, which frequently misleads us between the limits of reality and fiction.

Images for the series "Little Papers" http://www.alexiavillard.com/little_papers__2

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