Le travail de Thomas Jorion (né en 1976, installé à Paris) s’élabore dans le champ spécifique des bâtiments en ruine ou délaissés, des lieux désormais déchus tant de leur usage que de leur fonction. Son geste photographique explore les rapports avec l’environnement construit en privilégiant des espaces atypiques qu’il nous incite à observer en induisant une réflexion sur la matérialité et la temporalité.

Chestionarul The Chronicle vs. Thomas Jorion

The Chronicle: What book(s) are you reading now ?
Thomas Jorion: Train by Pete Dexter.

The Chronicle: What do you fear most ?
Thomas Jorion: Planes.

The Chronicle: Electric or acoustic ?
Thomas Jorion: Electric.

The Chronicle: What is truth ?
Thomas Jorion: A point of view.

The Chronicle: Where are you now ?
Thomas Jorion: Gun Barrel City, Texas.

The Chronicle: Do you believe in life after death ?
Thomas Jorion: No.

The Chronicle: What is the strangest thing that ever happened to you ?
Thomas Jorion: Visiting an abandoned steelmill of 800 meters long.

The Chronicle: The most sentimental song you’ve listened to ?
Thomas Jorion: Stairway to heaven, Led Zepplin.

The Chronicle: Do you like sushi ?
Thomas Jorion: Yes, I love it.

The Chronicle: What’s to be done if the end of the world won’t come this year either ?
Thomas Jorion: Nothing as usual.

The Chronicle: With what impressions you would leave the Earth today?
Thomas Jorion: More things to do.

The Chronicle: What are you thinking when you hear about “human rights” ?
Thomas Jorion: These are for the rich part of humanity.

The Chronicle: The thing you’re looking for but still haven’t found it ?
Thomas Jorion: Inner Peace.

The Chronicle: What is a poem ?
Thomas Jorion: Don’t you have a dictionary ?

The Chronicle: Everything is relative ?
Thomas Jorion: Probably.

The Chronicle: What is rationality’s purpose?
Thomas Jorion: To keep us from acting irrational.

The Chronicle: Are you happy ?
Thomas Jorion: From time to time, when I’m in front of a nice scene to photograph.

The Chronicle: To what extent Kafka would have had problems with the law ?
Thomas Jorion: Only if he broke the law.

The Chronicle: An artist you recommend and a reason to why we should pay him/her attention ?
Thomas Jorion: Toshio Shibata, a Japanese photographer I discovered during my last stay in Japan. I owned his book about solid ground and I like very much his approach.

The Chronicle: Is life enough ?
Thomas Jorion: Probably not, but it’s all we got.

The Chronicle: What can you tell us about Paris ?
Thomas Jorion: There is something deeper behind the tourist sites.

The Chronicle: Who killed Kennedy, after all ?
Thomas Jorion: That’s an old story, I wasn’t there.

The Chronicle: What significant progress you notice from cave life to the present ?
Thomas Jorion: Blow up dolls.

The Chronicle: The illusion you refuse to confront with the concrete reality ?
Thomas Jorion: The existence of god.

The Chronicle: What are you planning to do tomorrow ?
Thomas Jorion: Journey to the desert.

The Chronicle: A question for posterity ?
Thomas Jorion: What happens if I put bread with jam on the back of a cat and drop the cat upside down?

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Thomas Jorion este fotograf.

Toate fotografiile (din seriile Silencio, Palais oubliés, La quête des soviets, Nuigishi, Révolution éteinte) sunt publicate cu acordul lui Thomas Jorion; © Copyright 2012 Thomas Jorion. www.thomasjorion.com/

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