SNOWMEN
Charles Negre
This unconventional still life series by Charles Negre and Alina Joana Rüede (Studio Végété) is featured in Arxipelag Volume III ( Fun) along with a shot fiction piece by writer Annalise June Kamegawa.
Kamegawa writes: “There’s something about Charles Negre and Aline Joana Rüede’s snow characters. I would call them snowmen, but the forms here are more animated, joyful, that they deserve nomenclature beyond the humdrum classification of mere “man”. Their lopsided features, waning smiles, and resigned melting under the winter sun got me thinking about how not only do we change, but inevitably, so do the people around us. Controlling the passage of time is as futile as fighting a storm or stopping a snowman from melting.”
You will find the full story in the pages of Arxipelag Volume III, available in our shop.
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Charles Negre
Charles Negre was born in Mâcon, France, in 1988. He graduated at ECAL (École Cantonnale d’Art de Lausanne) in 2010. Since then, based between Lausanne and Paris, his practice has been dedicated to still life and studio photography, exploring this timeless genre as a tool to question contemporary systems of image production. His work moves between long-term personal projects, short-term commercial commissions, as well as teaching the MA Applied photography course at ECAL.
