Alexandre Mury

Alexandre Mury works from self-portraits which he relates to readings of cultural and literary icons, painting, sculpture and other references. Photography is the over-all support for these works. In a playful, intriguing and newly contextualized mode, he endeavors to reconstruct famous eternal themes and to re frame the Classics. contemporary mainstream exercises in recycling and rereading. His originality lies in the performed character of his work, in its self-direction and stylistic consistency.