Rouvrir le monde avec Dorian Teti

Dorian Teti lives and works between Paris and Vallauris. With a Bachelor’s degree in Art History, and a specialization in photography from ENS Louis-Lumière (2011), his work revolves around the staging of intimate, collective, and individual memories, peeling back the layers of the deceptive power images, facades, and replicas. Through his use of staging, self-portraiture, reappropriation, and juxtapositions of images and texts, he creates a universe filled with objects, illusions, simulacra, and doubles. The image, exploited as fictitious documentation, which he systematically retouches, has been combined with plastic work in volume for several years, in constant back-and-forth between the space of reality and that of the image.

Hosting structure: “Les Cigales” day-care center, Beausoleil (4-11 years) Duration of activity: 45 hours
The project: During this three-week mediation residency at a day-care center with children aged 4 to 11, Dorian Teti researched the reproduction of objects collected on the premises. Understood in the broadest sense of the term, the copying of objects was approached in several stages: by plaster molding, by taking clay impressions, by photogrammetry (to obtain 3D reproductions) and by the application of software-generated textures. In a constant to-and-fro between the space of reality, that of the two-dimensional image and that of 3D, the aim was to merge these different spaces and observe how objects are transformed each time they are reproduced, always similar but never really identical.

Rouvrir le monde – Un été culturel, un dispositif de la DRAC PACA.