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POLYNESIA


2002

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POLYNESIA
2002

Marquesas islands

“I wanted to become a nun, but God decided otherwise. At the age of 15, I met my husband. At the age of 16, I was pregnant. We’re expecting our seventh child.” Marie-Claire

Abstracts

"Alvaro de Mendana, discoverer of the archipelago, and – who knows? – possibly a distant ancestor of Marie-Claire, 'baptized' these islands as the 'Marquesas' to pay homage to the Marquessa of Mendoza, who had financed his evangelical expedition. The venture was a resounding success: the Marquesas population is made up of fervent Catholics, like the inhabitants of the Gambier Islands.

Meanwhile, Society Islanders tend to be protestants, while the atolls of Tuamotu and other scattered isles, undoubtedly too sparsely populated to be thought worthwhile by the 'big guns', have been handed over to the Mormons, the Community of Christ, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other recent, mainly American, denominations."

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

Works

POLYNESIA 2674
Marie-Claire, 2002

Marquesas islands
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 60 cm

POLYNESIA 2676
Marie-Claire 2, 2002

Marquesas islands
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm

POLYNESIA 3517
Marie-Claire 3, 2003

Marquesas islands
Silver print
40 x 30 cm

POLYNESIA 2685
Yvonne, 2002

Marquesas islands
Acrylic on paper
66 x 42 cm

POLYNESIA 2687
Yvonne 2, 2002

Marquesas islands
Silver print
40 x 60 cm

POLYNESIA 3519
Gwendoline, 2002

Marquesas islands
Silver print
24 x 30 cm

POLYNESIA 3521
Gwendoline 2, 2002

Marquesas islands
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm

POLYNESIA 2693
Nuku Hiva, 2002

Marquesas islands
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

POLYNESIA 2689
Thérèse, 2002

Marquesas islands
Gouache on paper
42 x 78 cm

POLYNESIA 2691
Thérèse 2, 2002

Marquesas islands
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm

Maps

POLYNESIA 2672
Map of Polynesia, 2002

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

POLYNESIA 2673
Map of Polynesia 2, 2002

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

Books

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