Platanos con platino
France
2018Artiste invité
With her series Plátanos con platino, Elsa Leydier pays tribute to the Colombian region of Chocó. The area is mostly known for its poverty and violence, but it is also one of the richest in the field of mining and natural resources. Elsa Leydier wants to show an aspect that is often left aside: the attempt at overcoming the region’s bad reputation. She highlights the positive and optimistic elements and reveals the magic and luxuriance of the land, and its “bananas with platinum chips”, romanticised by Gabriel García Márquez in his 1954 travel writings.
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About the artist
Elsa Leydier was born in France in 1988. After she studied foreign languages, she entered the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles, from which she graduated in 2015. She now works and lives in Lyon (France) and in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), where she develops her own approach around the question of represent- ing territories through images. Her work was shown at the Rencontres d’Arles, at the gallery Le Réverbère in Lyon, at agnès b. and the gallery Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris. More recently, she had her own exhibition at the Alliance Française in Bogotá (Colombia), where she presented the result of a two-months long work on Colombian territory.