Matignon, Paris
Martin Parr
Global Warning
Jeu de PaumeTickets available at tinyurl.com/y9nk6c3j This exhibition revisits the work of the late British photographer Martin Parr, bringing together a selection of series produced since the 1970s that find new resonance in light of the growing disarray of the contemporary world. For over fifty years, Parr travelled the globe not as an activist but as a relentless and amused observer, offering a lucid and unsparing portrait of global imbalances and the excesses of contemporary life: the grotesque face and damaging effects of mass tourism, the rise of car culture, our dependence on technology, unbridled consumerism, and our ambivalent relationship with other living beings. Through his characteristically offbeat vision, Parr also indirectly engages with the human behaviors driving contemporary climate change: the unrestrained use of transport, reliance on fossil fuels, global overconsumption, and environmental degradation. Over time, and as social attitudes have shifted, what once appeared merely entertaining has revealed itself to be increasingly serious. In retrospect, Parr's corrosive irony places him within a long tradition of British satire: his sharp wit and deadpan humor deliver a critical, and at times merciless, view of the world we inhabit. Curators: Quentin Bajac, in collaboration with Martin Parr and Clémentine de la Féronnière