Solo-project online exhibition featuring Jérôme Dupré la Tour’s art from “Transformative Identities” in Cyprus. Each piece, a cyanotype on paper, seamlessly blends art and chemistry. Immerse yourself in the captivating fusion of creativity and precision in these unique cyanotypes.

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Conceptual exhibition “Transformative Identities” is an important outcome of the International Art Residency CARV.
This exhibition is the culmination of Jérôme’s work in CARV residency focusing on identity, transformation and migration linked to the sea. Jérôme Dupré la Tour focuses on the element of water, the sea, that many migrants have to cross. Using the cyanotype technique, he creates a series of portraits of people that have never existed, as a tribute to the unknown people involved in migration and the ones that died trying to cross the sea. To enhance the sense of randomness and anonymity, he used an AI program that formed these faces combining characteristics of people involved in migration, whether they might be migrants, police officers, politicians, or traffickers. Strictly connected to the sea, the faces are printed on sea pebbles he gathered from the shores of Cyprus, and presented in a pond of water, within the exhibition, as a memento mori for all the people that crossed the sea to a better life. Besides this work, a series of cyanotype printed cloth that remind of flags or sails. On them, he printed objects gathered from the sea, as remnants of the transition to the new land. However, the identity of objects themselves has been transformed through the artist’s practice. He transformed them from garbage to abstract artistic elements giving them a new existence.

— Dimitrios S. Spyrou, The Curator.

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