Photography

The exhausted men

2012

  • Les hommes épuisés (The exhausted men) / Photography on metal / New-York / 45 x 75 cm / 2012

  • Les hommes épuisés (The exhausted men) / Photography on metal / Moscow / 45 x 75 cm / 2012

  • Les hommes épuisés (The exhausted men) / Photography on metal / Paris / 45 x 75 cm / 2012

  • Les hommes épuisés (The exhausted men) / Photography on metal / Beijing / 45 x 75 cm / 2012

Series of 4 photos

During a stay in New York in 2009, Marzuk photographs a suite of portraits which he names "The exhausted men". Using in a regular way the principle of the assembly and the multiple, he diverts, in this series of four photos, the advertising slogan ”Think different” from Apple to update the superficiality of the advertising and contrasts him with the depth of the real life, that of the suffering of the people. While all the photos were taken in New York, the artist, by registering the names of diverse big capitals of the world, informs us that the main globalization is the one of the difficulty living, masked - cruel paradox - by the uncountable flashy lights of big cities.