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Fabien Charuau

Dormeurs, reveurs, assoupis inconfortablement dans un coin de rue, sur un trottoir, au beau milieu de la foule. Visages grimaçants, jambes et bras etendus, postures improbables...

Man to man

The jumble of crowds, packed together, sharing everything from ideas to the banalities of everyday life is something that rarely gets recorded in India.

But it's a subject that French-born Indophile Fabien Charuau is attempting to capture in his new exhibition of photographs titled The Great Unwashed and Stumble Asleep...

Off the wall

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Fabien Charuau

An exhibition of FABIEN CHARUAU's photographs at Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai. The two series on view are titled The Great Unwashed and Stumble Asleep. On view from September 02 to 30, 2010

Expo photo Fabien Charuau

Fabien Charuau est un photographe français base a Bombay depuis 7 ans.

Il invite les membres du Club France au vernissage de son exposition photo a la galerie Matthieu Foss le 1er septembre prochain.

L’exposition presente une serie de photographies intitulee “The Great Unwashed"...

Anne Maniglier on Vimeo

We shot this interview with photographer Anne Maniglier at the opening of her new exhibition at Mumbai's Matthieu Foss Gallery

Home on a wall: The one-dimensional abodes of India's street dwellers

French photographer Anne Manglier introduces India to the street homes it has become blind to, and the concept of literally living your life in public

Nella megalopoli asiatica sta succedendo ciò che forse la stragrande maggioranza dell’Occidente non sa. Con gallerie che diventano musei, con distretti artistici che si formano e con un collezionismo che acquisisce consapevolezza. In un paese che si avvia ad avere centinaia di milioni di ricchi...

Boombay

Garam Masala: Can we get cooler than this?

A recent article in this space in ET looked at an art exhibition in Mumbai by Sanjeev Khandekar and Vaishali Narkar that showed overstuffed refrigerators to make a point about our society’s consumption patterns. That made me wonder about the ways in which Indians use their refrigerators ...

Can't you smell that smell ?

The first ever glance at the fridge in the work of Sanjeev Khandekar and Vaishali Narkar brings a montage of the dead, soured and still thriving world of the market which feeds so many human imaginations, understandings, aesthetics and lives...

Pat the photographer: 'Unseen Unheard Unexplained'

A new collaboration between Mumbai curator Matthieu Foss and a mysterious Indian photographer called Pat makes for a raw and provocative exhibition ...

A Photographer From the Old School

No, it's not a campaign for VIP briefs, though a look around Pat's photo exhibition at the Matthieu Foss Gallery does reveal a penchant for posing sans clothing. Known only as Pat, the Mumbai photographer has no formal training, and an explicit dislike of digital cameras (he shoots with a variety of old-school cameras, mostly using 8mm film) ...

Article in Loksatta

रोजचं आयुष्य जगताना आपल्या जाणीवेत आणि शरीरात शिरणारी प्रत्येक गोष्ट आपणच पूर्वी कधीतरी साठवून ठेवलेली असते किंवा कोणीतरी आपल्यासाठी साठवून-गोठवून-खारवून-वाळवून ठेवलेली असते. नव्या आणि ताज्या गोष्टी खूपच मोजक्या. या प्रतिमा नुसत्या अन्नाविषयीच्या नाहीत. आपण आज जे साहित्य वाचतो, जे संगीत ऐकतो, जो टी. व्ही. पाहतो आणि सर्वात म्हणजे, जी माहिती मिळवत आहोत ती अशीच गोठवलेली व पुनर्वापर केलेली आहे. रोजच्या जगण्याचा अनुभव हा शीतपेयांच्या गरम आणि लाखो शिळ्या बाटल्यांचा स्टोअरमध्ये बसण्याचा आहे...

It's a big, bad world out there

Mumbai: Bad Breath is a unique exhibition of pictures by renowned artists Sanjeev Khandekar and Vaishali Narkar which depict the refrigerator and its innards as a metaphor for the modern human being and his modern lifestyle.

In cold storage

By Anjuly Mathai

Albert Einstein today might be known for his theories on Physics, but in the 1920s he embarked on a quest to invent a ‘safe refrigerator’ that would be eco-friendly and would operate without electricity. Unfortunately, his model became obsolete after the depression...

Your fridge suffers from Bad Breath ?

In the exhibition titled Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bad Breath but were Afraid to Ask Alfred Hitchcock, two artists hope to shock you into showing concern for the environment through pictures of the inside of a refrigerator

The city that sleeps

Shahid Datawala is a photographer and furniture designer. “Schizophrenia” is how he attempts to explain the fact that he designs ultra-modern, swanky furniture four days a week for an exclusive interiors store, and spends the other three walking around Mumbai with his camera, capturing images of ramshackle chairs and couches...