Hyper No. 34, from the series Hyper, 2007-09

"The kids in Denis Darzacq's photographs want to get away, sort of, or at least they want to capture an instant of freedom in a society that surrounds them, cocoons them in the often spurious choices of the marketplace—a full supermarket of interchangeable products that seems to go on forever. Darzacq's kids have the appearance of defying not only their confinement by capitalism but gravity itself."

—Lyle Rexer, Photograph magazine

In this photograph, Denis Darzacq uses a photographic construction to juxtapose two realities: the supermarkets' backdrop that has become our social and living spaces; and the proud strength of young bodies in movement, refusing to be subjugated. The street dangers in these photographs challenge the very laws of gravity by self-discipline and hard work, performing ecstatic and gratuitous acts in spaces designed to promote conformism and consumerism.

C-Print
Paper Size: 15 15/16 x 11 3/16 inches
Image Size: 14 x 9 1/4 inches
Edition of 15 and 2 Artist’s Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

Denis Darzacq (b. 1961 Paris, France) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 1986. His work is held in the collections of the National Modern Art Museum (Centre Georges Pompidou), the Nicéphone Niépce Museum’s National Contemporary Collection in Chalon-sur-Saône,France, Gallery Chateau d’eau, Toulouse, and the Altadis Foundation, among others. A recipient of the first prize, stories category, in the World Press Photo 2007, he won the Altadis Prize in 2000 and is represented by Gallery VU.