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COLOMBIA


2006

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COLOMBIA
2006

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

COLOMBIA 1416
Genoveba, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 1574
Maria Angela, 2006

Colombia
Silver print
50 x 40 cm

COLOMBIA 1576
Maria Angela 2, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
74.5 x 73.5 cm

COLOMBIA 1558
La plage de Cali, 2006

Colombia
C-Print
300 x 456 cm

COLOMBIA 1562
La calle, 2006

Colombia
Silver print
50 x 40 cm

COLOMBIA 1433
Xiomara, 2006

Colombia
Gouache enhanced silver print
60 x 40 cm

COLOMBIA 1566
Aquacity, 2006

Colombia
Gouache enhanced silver print
60 x 40 cm

COLOMBIA 1570
Xiomara 2, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 1572
Xiomara 3, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 1568
Circo para todos, 2006

Colombia
C-Print
270 x 540 cm

COLOMBIA 1420
Katherine, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 1422
Noris, 2005

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 1426
Noris 2, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 1432
Noris et Katherine, 2006

Colombia
C-Print
171 x 294 cm

COLOMBIA 1580
La calle 2, 2006

Colombia
Middle format Contax 645
40 x 60 cm

COLOMBIA 1452
Bianca Nelly, 2006

Colombia
C-Print
116 x 265 cm

COLOMBIA 1444
Leida, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 1464
Leida 2, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 74 cm

COLOMBIA 1578
Le temple de Gardel à Cali, 2006

Colombia
C-Print
116 x 265 cm

Maps

COLOMBIA 1409
Languages of Colombia, 2006

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

COLOMBIA 1410
Languages of Colombia 2, 2006

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

Making-of

Illustration Making Of
Portrait of Maria Angela, 2006

Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras

Illustration Making Of
Preparation of the photo-tableau "Le temple de Gardel à Cali", 2006

Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras

Illustration Making Of
Preparation of the photo-tableau "Andrea et les Miss Cola", 2006

Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras

Film by Marc Jampolsky

Image by Thomas Sady

Books

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