26 September – 7 November
The Perth Centre for Photography is please to present ANIMA, new work by Christophe Canato, opening 6 pm, Friday 25 September 2020.
Christophe Canato has made his name in France, Australia and Singapore as a photo-media artist. His work examines male roles and identities in our contemporary western contexts. Canato is interested about exploring social issues such as politics and religion, including physical identities and sexual orientations. What questions this artist is the notion of belonging or rejection and the status that man is supposed to hold in society.
Canato’s new work Anima is an immersive, polychromatic photographic series that is exploring the inner feminine side of the man.
The Anima is both a personal complex and an archetypal that expresses the fact that man psyche has a minority of feminine qualities according to psychologist Carl Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961). It is an unconscious factor incarnated anew in every male child and is responsible for the mechanism of projection.
Born in the French Alpes, Christophe canato undertook postgraduate studies in France, where he continued to live and work before moving to Perth Australia in 2005. His work has been exhibited in more than fifty solo and collective exhibitions, currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Multiple prize winner Christophe Canato’s photographies are also included in public collections such as Artbank Australian Federal Government collection. His series are published internationally including France, England, Australia and recently in the Chinese magazine Photoworld with a eight page publication.
