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06.06.97 - 06.22.97
Exhibition — Espace Clément Marlo
Sam Samore, Scenarios n°40, 1997
photogtraphie noir & blanc, 100 x 200cm
courtesy galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Born in the United States, he lives and works in New York (USA).
Sam Samore made his name in the late 1980s with a series of very small photographs measuring barely a few centimetres, forcing the viewer to stick his or her nose on these black "spots". Enigmatic photographs of a detective's report. Recently the artist has been making photographs of enlarged mouths and eyebrows which he combines into a series. Entitled Allegory of beauty, these are swollen body parts or fragments of faces that look like stone. Like isolated statues.
With the support of MAEC.