Marion Gronier / We were never meant to survive
Through the portraits of members of three founding communities of North America, Native Americans, African Americans and Mennonites, photographer Marion Gronier seeks to resurrect the ghosts that haunt the country’s history and confirm the persistence of the societal violence inherited from racial hierarchisation. Questioning her position as a European artist, she deploys the codes of anthropometric photography used in the colonial system at the end of the 19th century, by distorting them to better deconstruct them.
Published by Le Bec en l’air
French & English
24.5 x 24.5 cm
140 pages
2021
Through the portraits of members of three founding communities of North America, Native Americans, African Americans and Mennonites, photographer Marion Gronier seeks to resurrect the ghosts that haunt the country’s history and confirm the persistence of the societal violence inherited from racial hierarchisation. Questioning her position as a European artist, she deploys the codes of anthropometric photography used in the colonial system at the end of the 19th century, by distorting them to better deconstruct them.
Published by Le Bec en l’air
French & English
24.5 x 24.5 cm
140 pages
2021
Through the portraits of members of three founding communities of North America, Native Americans, African Americans and Mennonites, photographer Marion Gronier seeks to resurrect the ghosts that haunt the country’s history and confirm the persistence of the societal violence inherited from racial hierarchisation. Questioning her position as a European artist, she deploys the codes of anthropometric photography used in the colonial system at the end of the 19th century, by distorting them to better deconstruct them.
Published by Le Bec en l’air
French & English
24.5 x 24.5 cm
140 pages
2021
