Cali
“The city of unbelievable girls…” This is how Alvaro Mutis described, while never naming, the city of Cali. He once said to me: “You go to the end of the bridge, you take a look, and you won’t believe your eyes!”
Abstracts
"Ever since this time, I dreamed of going and not believing my eyes in Cali. I’m no longer betraying a secret by naming the city of unbelievable girls today, for so much water has flowed under this bridge, it seems. (…) Cali has become the world capital of cosmetic surgery. Over here, we have to put aside our own canons of beauty: in Cali, gaunt-looking top models get called 'string beans'! If a girl wants men to look at her, she needs to show off voluptuous forms.
(…) Drug traffickers have invested stupendous masses of capital in crazy nightclubs or ultra well-equipped cosmetic-surgery clinics that have dethroned the ones in Rio de Janeiro, in Latin America. They love snazzy cars, sumptuous villas and showy eye-catching girls. At the age of 17 or 18, many young girls have already gone for silicone treatments more or less from head to toe."
Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard
Works
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
![COLOMBIA 1574](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_maria_angela_0.jpg?itok=XbYO4Gy-)
Colombia
Silver print
50 x 40 cm
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
74.5 x 73.5 cm
![COLOMBIA 1558](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_la_plage_de_cali.jpg?itok=HyQwcTqh)
Colombia
C-Print
300 x 456 cm
![COLOMBIA 1562](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_la_calle.jpg?itok=8c2y8pQD)
Colombia
Silver print
50 x 40 cm
![COLOMBIA 1433](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_xiomara.jpg?itok=Pb8up5Pc)
Colombia
Gouache enhanced silver print
60 x 40 cm
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Colombia
Gouache enhanced silver print
60 x 40 cm
![COLOMBIA 1570](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_xiomara2.jpg?itok=FZiNVY6X)
Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
![COLOMBIA 1572](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_xiomara3.jpg?itok=oS6KDbo5)
Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
![COLOMBIA 1568](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_circo_para_todos.jpg?itok=SR8DCftD)
Colombia
C-Print
270 x 540 cm
![COLOMBIA 1420](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_katherine.jpg?itok=R7d4Rzid)
Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
![COLOMBIA 1426](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_noris2.jpg?itok=lem9NV7q)
Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
![COLOMBIA 1432](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_top_class.jpg?itok=LeDCvIod)
Colombia
C-Print
171 x 294 cm
![COLOMBIA 1580](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_la_calle_2.jpg?itok=h5Jg5-M8)
Colombia
Middle format Contax 645
40 x 60 cm
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Colombia
C-Print
116 x 265 cm
![COLOMBIA 1444](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_leida.jpg?itok=eqIQv3_p)
Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
![COLOMBIA 1464](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_leida2.jpg?itok=03ub5ZA-)
Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 74 cm
![COLOMBIA 1578](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_le_temple_de_gardel_a_cali.jpg?itok=4bZQmY-I)
Colombia
C-Print
116 x 265 cm
Maps
![COLOMBIA 1409](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_cartes_colombie_cali.jpg?itok=PGsrePnf)
Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm
![COLOMBIA 1410](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_cartes_colombie_cali2.jpg?itok=1bTTnTee)
Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm
Making-of
![Illustration Making Of](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/width-half/public/uploads/illustration/tit_2017_makingof_colombie_cali.jpg?itok=DxIGwpN1)
Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras
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Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras
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Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras
Image by Thomas Sady