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For whenever you’re too hungry but can’t or shouldn’t eat… don’t go for a Special K thingy.. just visualize Per Johansen’s Mæt series, your brain is more powerful than your stomach, remember that!

fish from Mæt series by Per Johansen - 2012

Danish photographer Per Johansen showed part of his consumerism-critic series @ last Saturday’s Circulation(s) festival. “Reminiscent of 1970s social criticism and ideological points – to deconstruct the system”, “MÆT” consists of reproductions of meat, vegetables, pasta and other foods which are claustrophobically placed in various synthetic plastic containers. Organic inside artificial.

So fresh veggies that you may salivate if staring at them and may even remind you to Dutch still life painters, where soft light and shadows were crucial to the mood of the subject… and to make the food extremely tempting. Because these series are aesthetically beautiful, harmonious, like sausage, chicken & fish, but keep staring.. they’re scary & decadent.. and will provoke disgust & repulsion, like any other excess.

Naaaaa, there’s no excess of food in our society, never! I just got addicted to the white kinder bueno… but who cares! Ferrero don’t for sure. More photos & his previous works on his page.

Last Saturday, the vernisage of Fetart’s Circulation(s) festival took place @ the Parisian well hidden, well isolated Parc de Bagatelle. Not pouring but drizzling (which is even worst) for what promised to be THE evening of young European photography.

David de Beyter - Concrete Mirrors - 2010 (photo via Festival Circulation)

Quite a few disappointments, a “curious” mise-en-scène, but nice hot soup for such gray-day. We’re completely sure that if the Sun had been shining over our heads and the beautiful Galerie Côté Seine & Trianon, things would have been much much nicer.

Despite the evident holes the nice people @ Fetart did their best to bring as many people as they could to the remote location for the 2nd edition of their cross-European photograph exhibition. Loads of hits (that we’ll keep talking about) & misses but many emerging talents such as David de Beyter whose “Concrete Mirrors” series is inevitably linked (maybe inspired?) by Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions.

David de Beyter - Observatory - 2010 (photo via Festival Circulation)

David (French-born but Belgian-adopted) also timetravels to the always fascinating, always futuristic 60s architecture, focusing on all those places who had an spacial & scientific accreditation.

David de Beyter - Radomes iii - 2010 (photo via Festival Circulation)

But beware! because most of those images are a mix of realities, even virtual ones which trick our perception by giving life to many architecture projects that actually never took place. Were we looking at the future ?

David de Beyter - Flying Saucer - 2010 (photo via Festival Circulation)