Rouvrir le monde avec Dorian Teti

Dorian Teti lives and works between Paris and Vallauris. After a degree in Art History, he turned to photography, graduating from ENS Louis-Lumière (2011). His work revolves around the staging of intimacy, collective, and individual memory, to reveal the deceptive power of the image, the fake and the copy. Through staging, self-portraits, reappropriation, and photographic or textual associations, he constructs a universe filled with objects, illusions, simulacra, and doubles. For several years, he has combined the image, exploited as fictitious documentation that he systematically retouches, with three-dimensional plastic work, in a constant back-and-forth between the space of the real and that of the image.

Host structure: “Les Cigales” Leisure Centre, Beausoleil (ages 4-11) – Activity duration: 45 hours
The project: During this mediation residency, conducted over three weeks in a leisure centre with children aged 4 to 11, Dorian Teti researched the reproduction of objects collected directly on the premises. Understood in a broad sense, the copying of objects was approached in several stages: through plaster molding, by taking clay impressions, by photogrammetry (to obtain 3D reproductions) and by applying textures generated by the software. In a constant back-and-forth between the space of reality, the two-dimensional image, and 3D, the aim was to merge these different spaces and observe how objects transform each time they are reproduced, always similar but never truly identical.

Rouvrir le monde – Un été culturel, a DRAC PACA initiative.