Diane Ducruet

a very interesting photographer - Diane Ducruet. Here are two samples of her projects. Please visit her website http://www.dididuc.com/ to see more of her astonishing work!

Dialogues

Passengers 2006

One says that things have neither heart nor soul.
Nevertheless, as soon as they are approached, they transform themselves and tell stories as if they had been charged with a special mission.
They gaze at us, we are covering them with our good intentions, they become commodities. They are taking or losing value, turning our lust on or off …A genius would be perhaps a Pygmalion inversed : He would transform a person or an animal into such a perfect object, that we would never know whether they were beings or things…
The endless turnover of the labels would be the major art : everybody entering in the ring in order to see themselves as masterpieces…Nobody would be able to tell whether men are dancing with a thing or a person. We would not talk, forever looking at each other, the reflection of lamps in the partner’s eyes would be the only thing to see.
We would finally get rid of the others and be free of human complications; We would become some gods exhibited in front of other divinities, our appearences squashing any kind of talk or seductions. We would be the strongest, victors with the victors as the only rule. Our world looking empty underneath and above itself.
Forever divinised, trusting in our extraordinary exchange-value for some more and more expressive money, we would organize silent ceremonies, striking poses and staking our territories. The infinite precautions in placing mirrors which could reflect ourselves, showing the precise powerfulness of our image, would be rewarded. We would only be born to be and our triumph would exempt us from learning sciences and practicing virtue. We would have no gender, or there would be just one left, Medusa’s. Alone or amongst billions, we would be identical, and where ever we would be, it would be always in the same place, eminently spectacular to ourselves.
The revenge of a vengeful god.