The
accelerating transformation of our contemporary life is
evidenced paradoxically by both beauty and decay in the
social space – our physical and social environments.
My work explores the complex impact of exponential development
on the human experience. I attempt to highlight such core
humanist principles as our control over our surroundings,
environmental adaptation, frailty, conflict and compassion.
I investigate such key battle grounds as societal moeurs,
technological adoption, man’s (self) destructive force,
communication immediacy, economic velocity and dislocations.
The work approaches with awe and, at times, foreboding the
unleashed inexorable power of change taking shape in and
around us and currently presents these observations in two
forms – found and altered photographs.
My
topic is timely. Our twenty-first century will see the equivalent
of an accumulated 20,000 years of progress at today’s
accelerating rate of change. The symptoms are all around us.
We live the consequences of this exponential change in social
and geo-political conflict, knowledge gaps, media message
opacity, medical care disparities and infrastructure challenges.
My work on the illustrates the physical and conceptual change
across the social space (and its imagery) with each series
offering an individual observation through association and
juxtaposition.
February 2004
Alexandre Fuchs
Biographical
Information
A
French national, Alex Fuchs grew up in Paris and moved
to the U.S. He lives in New York City and works out
of his Greenwich Village studio.
His
father, Leo Fuchs,
is a renowned photographer of the 1950s and 60s and
independant film producer in France.
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