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POLYNESIA


2002

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POLYNESIA
2002

Australs islands and Tuamotu

"Chavely’s gaze is lost in the blue line of the horizon towards the north. She’s dreaming of the lights of Papeete…"

Abstracts

“'I have a friend who puts a big stone on top of a small stone every evening; if the big stone falls off, it means tomorrow will be a bad day for him… There’s nothing to do here.' Chavely is proud of her pretty little pebble from the island of Tubuai. (…) The arrival of thousands of young Popa’as with the CEP (Centre d’Expérimentation du Pacifique: 'the bomb') ended up upsetting the islanders’ social equilibrium. More remote islands have been less affected.

Tourism, television, and a succession of consumer products have stepped in to compensate. The girls on the islands get bored. They dream of leaving for Tahiti. The exodus has triggered, in Papeete in particular, a new wave of poverty and a deep identity crisis among males, with one symptom being violence towards women."

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

POLYNESIA 2743
Mama Taro, 2002

Tubuai, Austral Islands
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm

POLYNESIA 2715
Rurutu, 2002

Austral Islands
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 2717
Rurutu 2, 2002

Austral Islands
Acrylic on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 2719
Rurutu 3, 2002

Austral Islands
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 2721
Tatiana, 2002

Rurutu, Austral Islands
Acrylic on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 2723
Tatiana 2, 2002

Rurutu, Austral Islands
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 2731
Corina, 2002

Fakarava, Tuamotu Archipelago
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 2733
Fleur de tiaré, 2002

Fakarava, Tuamotu Archipelago
Acrylic on paper
66 x 42 cm

POLYNESIA 2713
Raquel, 2002

Rurutu, Austral Islands
Acrylic on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 2735
Chavely, 2002

Tubuai, Austral Islands
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 60 cm

POLYNESIA 3523
Chavely 2, 2002

Tubuai, Austral Islands
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 3526
Chavely 3, 2002

Tubuai, Austral Islands
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 2745
Tubuai, 2002

Austral Islands
Gouache and pencil on paper
42 x 66 cm

POLYNESIA 4163
Tubuai 2, 2002

Austral Islands
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

POLYNESIA 2711
Mama Paré, 2002

Tubuai, Austral Islands
Acrylic on paper
70 x 42 cm

Maps

POLYNESIA 2708
Map of Polynesia, 2002

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

POLYNESIA 2710
Map of Polynesia 2, 2002

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

Books

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