- Christophe Jivraj : '1,5-1,5' 10/02/26 → 10/04/03
Photographic portraits of a group of physically handicapped though cognitively lucid adults. The on-going, participatory project has evolved over the last five years and makes conventional use of photography to underline a process of individuation and the formation of identity. This new, more audacious instalment represents subjects in the intimacy of their bedroom, either nude or suggestively dressed. Complicating the image is the participants’ vulnerability, their atypical bodies exposed to the gaze of both the photographer and the anonymous viewer. It is accompanied by a video that presents snippets of contextual interviews that include the participants’ point of view on their identity, their body, and their sexuality.
“The numbers (in the title) correspond to a non-verbal form of communication that several of the models use. As they have a limited vocabulary they have no words for beauty, sex, sexuality, nude, nudity, etc. The only word that the models liked for the title was ‘body’ which corresponds as ’1,5-1,5’.”
Skol will be open on Saturday February 27 from 7pm to 3am for Montréal’s All-Nighter.
Biography
Christophe Jivraj was born in France and raised in Toronto, Canada. He received his Graduate degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University. He has exhibited throughout Canada with exhibitions at The Harcourt House in Edmonton and The New Gallery in Calgary. His work has been written about in various publications including FFWD and See Magazine.
