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Benoit Pailley - Swimming Blue
On a perfect sunny day a huge tarpaulin, hung to protect and screen a building under construction, comes partly loose from its support and is lifted by the wind. A fairly nondescript event in itself that might leave one totally indifferent, apart from the problem it creates for the site workers who have to attach it again. For Benoit Pailley, however, it is something more than a minor inconvenience on a building site: there is an implied, metaphoric meaning, an aesthetic quality that becomes the allegory for an existential hypothesis.
The French artist decides to capture the moment, halting the movement by taking photos from...
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