The Odyssey is the story of a man driven both by the desire to return home and by an insatiable curiosity that leads him to make detours, to meet others and discover the world. Ulysses holds both ends of his desire, at the cost of ten years of wandering. At the end of the road it is himself he discovers. If this ancient story still speaks to us, it is because it deals with current issues: identity, otherness, hospitality
Michaël Duperrin goes to the supposed places of Ulysses’ wanderings. The photographer travels through multiple layers, between here and elsewhere, now and yesterday, reality and fiction, in search of echoes between mythical past and present reality. The experiment will last ten years, the time it takes Ulysses to find Ithaca.
Odysseus, the Other World traces the first part of this Odyssey, and immerses us in the world of gods, monsters, infernos and sirens. The photographs are printed in cyanotype, one of the first photographic printing processes, which owes its name to its colour. Whereas we see the Mediterranean sea and its intense blue sky, the word “blue” does not exist in Homer’s language. The adjective that would later designate a dark blue refers in the Odyssey to the world of the Night and Hells, that is, to the Other World.
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The head draw including a signed copy of the book Odysseus, the other world + an original cyanotype (15X21 cm), signed and to be chosen among 4 cyanotypes which can be seen on the caroussel of images). Wrapped in the Odysseus flag > 200 euros
