Five pictures of one beach scene, distributed on 200 publicity panels through the city of Nice, France. Accompanied by two complementary newspapers about the project. Also exhibited with a series of colour photographs showing the posters on location in Nice, France.
A photograph on a poster, with a scenography that makes the image in that context truly ambiguous: The Côte d’Azur can be read as the utopia in both readings: a place of leisure and the place to seek refuge, a place where the dead and and the sunbather look suprisingly alike, and are sometimes even pictured sharing the same beach.
Exhibited
Vertaalde Werken/Translated Works, Barbara Visser 1990 - 2006 Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, 2006 / Gemeente aankopen Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2004 / Haunted by Detail, De Appel, 2002 / Els Hanappe Underground Gallery, Athens, Greece, 2002 / Throughout Nice, France, 2002


Bus stop, promenade des Anglais, Nice

Bus stop, promenade des Anglais, Nice

Installation shot at Museum de Paviljoens, 2007



A beach in the south of Spain, 2001

Bus stop, Nice

Galeries Lafayette, Nice

Publicity panel, Nice


Newspaper in English and French accompanying the poster project