Gong Co.
For the impressive installation Gong Co., Christian Patterson used the former Grand Café des Mouettes as the location for his recreation of a Mississippi grocery store gone bankrupt. Having managed to retrieve the furniture and stock of the failed business, the artist physically reproduced the original setting with hundreds of leftover items and goods expired for decades. By re-appropriating a creative process typical of pop art, the American photographer, recipient of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2015/2016, addresses capitalist society and its deep transformations. According to Patterson, photography is not only a way of representing reality: It becomes part of a narrative in which the emotional power of images confronts the physical presence of objects.
Gong Co.
For the impressive installation Gong Co., Christian Patterson used the former Grand Café des Mouettes as the location for his recreation of a Mississippi grocery store gone bankrupt. Having managed to retrieve the furniture and stock of the failed business, the artist physically reproduced the original setting with hundreds of leftover items and goods expired for decades. By re-appropriating a creative process typical of pop art, the American photographer, recipient of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2015/2016, addresses capitalist society and its deep transformations. According to Patterson, photography is not only a way of representing reality: It becomes part of a narrative in which the emotional power of images confronts the physical presence of objects.
