An ingenious approach to personal portraiture in a country with a virtual embargo on the form
While undertaking this photographic investigation of North Korea, French photographer Stéphan Gladieu (born 1969) found himself under constant surveillance everywhere he went. Because of these constraints, he managed to invent an ingenious space of freedom. Gladieu created mirror-portraits of people he encountered and was hosted by, often full length, which require a face-on pose and a direct gaze. In this way, he managed to create a form similar to North Korea’s propaganda imagery, which made his approach more comprehensible and permissible to the authorities.
Fifty years after its foundation, North Korea endures a media portrayal of war, famine, nuclear programs and military parades. Indoors, people are required to display portraits of the regime’s founder, Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-Il. Family photos are not allowed; nor are personal portraits. Consequently, Gladieu’s work attains an almost historic act of intervention in the country’s visual politics.
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Photographe auteur de la série Corée du Nord publiée chez Actes Sud en 2020 et exposée aux Rencontres d’Arles en 2021, Stéphan Gladieu a d’abord couvert la guerre et les questions sociales à travers l’Europe, l’Asie centrale et le Moyen-Orient. Aujourd’hui, il continue de réaliser des reportages pour des magazines internationaux mais se concentre principalement sur son travail artistique.
Après un demi-siècle d'existence, la Corée du Nord est l'un des pays les plus haïs au monde, mais aussi l'un des plus méconnus. À l'évidence, la radicalité de ce paradoxe cache une réalité plus complexe que ce qui est affiché : guerre, famine, dissidents, programme nucléaire, parades et défilés militaires...
Suivi, encadré, accompagné pas à pas tout au long de son séjour, Stéphan Gladieu invente un espace de liberté à l'intérieur du cadre imposé. L'existence de cette série photographique dépend intimement de la relation que le photographe a su nouer avec ses hôtes. En choisissant le portrait-miroir, souvent cadré de pied, qui requiert une pose frontale et un regard direct, Stéphan Gladieu s'est rapproché de l'image de propagande et a rendu sa démarche compréhensible aux Nord-Coréens.
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