2023-07-08 19:34:00
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2023fileThe Bangladeshi MdFazla Rabbi Fatiq looks at organic details: eyes and paws of animals, flowers, or less identifiable elements. The series is in the running for the Discovery Prize.
On the occasion of the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, which takes place from July 3 to September 24, 2023, Liberation gives pride of place to photography. Find this special issue “Libé des photographes” on newsstands on July 8 and 9 or on the reader.
Do not hesitate to take your time, which, given the orgy of images hung in the area, does not fall under the sense. Approach to track down the smallest details – veins, ridges, spots, cells, etc. – which will help to see more clearly in the amalgam. Or not. No clue appears, except for the generic title, a contextualizing element that says everything and nothing at the same time: the series is called “Chez moi”. With the induced idea that what is at home could just as well be at home. In this allusive panorama, in the center of a variegated constellation, an eye stares at the very one who is looking at it, to the point of establishing a certain form of retinal discomfort. Who owns it? To a fish, probably. But we don’t care, after all. Likewise, these stretched filaments, which are supposed to be an elastic gum, suitable for consumption, stuck to fabric. Or even, a little more explicitly all the same, these two poultry legs with curved claws, as if, in an ultimate instinct for survival, they were trying to grab a branch, however invisible, against a uniformly blue domestic background.
Contaminated by a concern that is both strange and deaf that no trace of human presence seeks to attenuate, the images of Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq, rising star of the Asian scene, reflect the confinement of a plastic photographer condemned to an autarkic creation. where it will have been necessary to seek the inspiration in a refrigerator, or on the sill of a window. Living in Dacca, the capital of Bangladesh, the boy – who is not yet 30 – had to return to Comilla, his hometown, at the height of the Covid pandemic. Cut off from his fellows, it is therefore flies, poultry or, we deduce, his own body that have provided him with an organic raw material, observed with scientific meticulousness, as much as accommodated to an arty appetite from which springs a question that does not call for a particular answer.
“Chez moi” is one of the ten exhibitions selected (among some four hundred registered applications) in Arles for the Discovery Prize, the curator of which was entrusted this year to the Indian Tanvi Mishra.
“Chez moi”, by Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq, as part of the Découvertes prize, church of the Preaching Brothers until August 27.
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