Adaptation by Ludivine Large-Bessette
Looking behind what the body witnesses…
From the artist:
Adaptation reports the meeting between a body and a landscape.
Of the landscape created by Man to the Man conditioned by the landscape, there is only a step, or rather a set of forms. Is it one that influences the other? The other that revealed itself by the first? We don’t know anymore. The one that fits and the one that bends, merge and size each other up at the same time.
Through the use of melodramatic codes of cinema, the painful sensation of a resisting body, and the play that emerges from absurd situations, these photographs interrogate and confront the viewer with the role of the body in our social interactions and in our contemporary environment.
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Born in 1987, Ludivine Large-Bessette lives and works in Paris. In her multidisciplinary work, which uses both photography and video, the represented body becomes a mirror that is able to unsettle, to question and to move her audience. Her works have been exhibited and screened at the International TanzFilmPlattform Berlin, the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville in the United States, La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes in partnership with Arte Creative in Biarritz and at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg, among others. Visit her official site, here.