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Born on December 24th.
Too much of a sinner to merit the Heaven, but unassailable to Hell, that's how Christophe Cufos likes to define himself.
He bears in him the nostalgia of the island of his spongediver ancestors. Like them, he does not hesitate to endanger himself, always in search for new emotions. Fascinated by the human figure, he also likes to contemplate the horizon, where sky and sea draw again the infinite. As a good native of the robust «apple tree», he accomplishes himself in love.
His aesthetic and syet modest images reflect an imposed discipline, that tends towards a certain «moral perfection» and an enfranchisement of the mind. He senses the Zeitgeist without letting himself catalysed by the overabundance of information. In his work he tries to render life without expressionism, nor misrepresentation.
The image of women he offers is an image of modest sensuality with a pleasure for colours. In a world that is at times judged as being too terrible, he refuses to show horrors. What for ? This is also the reason why his images are sometimes unreal, the effaced bodies echoing the subject's personality.
He is faithful to an ideal, confronting sheer desire, and the women he photographs are more angelic than melancholic, messengers of a new form of hedonism, rebels with an independent spirit, wild so as to be tamed, androgynous for the sake of timelessness. |
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