Video: Stop the Violence by François Robert: A Call Made from Human Bones
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The world is full of cruelty - hardly anyone would dare to argue with this statement. The pages of history textbooks are full of descriptions of bloody wars that claimed the lives of millions of people. Crime chronicles are about violent crimes, and terrorism has become a real scourge of the 21st century. “Stop the violence,” the French photographer Francois Robert urges us, and he does it more than convincingly: the images of symbols of death and destruction, laid out by the author from human bones, can leave few people indifferent.
It all started with the fact that in the mid-90s, François Robert went to an auction in Michigan, where one of the rural schools was selling its property. For his studio, our hero purchased three lockers. At home, he found that two lockers were completely empty, but in the third he found … a human skeleton. It is clear that at school it was used as a visual aid in anatomy lessons, but what should a photographer do with it? François put the skeleton back in the closet and locked it. Several years passed until the author came up with a brilliant idea to use his unusual find when creating a photo project.
However, it turned out to be not so easy to implement the idea: all the parts of the school skeleton were reliably connected to each other with a wire. Then François found on the Internet a source where individual parts of human skeletons were sold - in any case, he assures that everything was exactly like that. After making a series of purchases, the author became the proud owner of a box with 206 real human bones.
Since then, Robert has spent hundreds of hours in his studio, painstakingly laying out images of weapons, tanks, explosions and other symbols of danger and death from individual bones. The result of the work, which lasted almost a year, was a series of images "Stop the Violence" - beautiful and frightening at the same time. “For each image, I dismantled the modular skeleton system and folded the elements into a new shape,” says the author. - These are images of aggression, causing suffering, devastation and conflict. It was my intention for these works to sow ideas of restraint and mercy in an attempt to maintain peace and tolerance."
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