Jean Baudrillard is presenting in Siena a collection of his most recent photographs, taken during the last two years. It is not so much the aesthetic value of photography that interests the French philospher and maitre à penser, but rather the relationship between the subject (the photographer) and the object (that being photographed). Speaking about photography reveals a pretext for dealing with the issue of the image that, independent from the real, is loading with new symbolic forms.

The meaning of the artistic photography of Baudrillard is in the retrieval of the strength of the illusion, playing with forms that become a symbol for something else (if I were to be nostalgic about something, it would be for the loss of the illusion and not for the loss of the real”, he maintains).

The exhibition is made up of 51 colour images, divided into twelve separate series, interrelated and organised by subject: Voitures, Autoportraits, Architectures, Buenos Aires, Comores, Luxembourg, Moulin, Homotypie, Sainte Beuve, Nature object, Toronto.

8.5.2003 – 13.7.2003
L’exile et l’apparence. Incontri con Jean Baudrillard
Santa Maria della Scala, Magazzini della Corticella, Siena