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"The photo book title 'Le bateau ivre' (The Drunken Ship) refers to the poem of the same name by Arthur Rimbaud about human life as a dramatic voyage. In his poetic photo essay, which is laid out like a play in five acts, Martin ESSL sketches the outlines of a city in transition and composes an abstract and contemporary map of Paris.
Content
In his photo book 'Le bateau ivre', Martin ESSL takes us on a Parisian walk that shows the eternal return of the same, like a curtain that opens and closes endlessly. As if diluted and transformed, under the influence of variations around cold colors, the Parisian space gradually becomes Acqua alta, geographical, social, cultural and temporal boundaries are abolished." (Sarah Sauquet)