Type: Event
Location: Alliance Française de Trivandrum
City: Trivandrum
Date: Sat, 2011/12/03 – 5:00pm
Price: Free
Category: Exhibition
Alliance Française de Trivandrum will organize a Christmas celebration with French Carols and Bûche de Noël on 3 December at 5.00pm. On this occasion Alliance Française de Trivandrum will also present Metaphor Shots: An exhibition of Photographs by Sophia Laouari. The inauguration of the exhibition will be organized at 5.30pm on 3 December @ Art gallery, Alliance Française de Trivandrum.

Sophia Laouari, an amateur photographer, who is also passionate about film making, studied photography in Paris. For Sophia, camera became the producer of the images locked in her head which no words could describe. She considered it easier to capture the images rather than inventing a new language.

Her work focuses on people, as she is fascinated by identity, universality and humanity in its simplest representation.

Her first work was on the anti-globalization protests that took place against the G8 summit in Rostock, Germany. A few years later, she focused on the Cambodian’s face, it was her way of saying that Cambodia does not rhyme with mines, or Khmer Rouge only. She wanted to convey “ just the singular interaction, those smiles generous with this dazzling, and the silky softness … It’s like a fight against the preconceived images that inhabit us all. “
Therefore, this time, she decided to mix French expressions or French sayings with Indian images. It seems interesting to combine two cultures deeply rooted in the collective unconscious … that does visual culture and become one. “I think that proverbs reflect a culture as well as the formulation reveals a way of thinking. However, it remains something deeply human and therefore universal. That’s why I wanted to bring French language and visual India to widen the mind and that is not confined to stereotypes. I would like to attract also attention to daily life, the intensity of what is happening in front of our eyes every day and we end up not seeing out of habit. The answers to our existential questions are mostly all around us, we just have to be careful and look beyond what appears.”