TRUMP PARK
DONALD TRUMP’S INTIMATE PHOTO ALBUM
The Trump presidency has showed the appeal of populist authoritarianism to a half of Americans. The way the country responds to the attack on the U.S. Capitol indicate how long this movement is. It’s a mental insurrection!
Politics has become binary, viral, non-reflexive.
The choice of political leaders is fundamental, understanding their life and their training is decisive for the future of democracy.
Political confrontation today is based on basic identities, simplistic assumptions, kitsch
aesthetics, procrastination… Polarization took place in society, and it appeared in all the
discussions (political, intellectual, social, artistic…), developing the odio, the political and social exclusion and putting forward money, as the primary value.
Trump is one of the most meaningful symbols!
The « Donald trump’s intimate Photo Album » is a special journey in the mentality of the 45th US president of USA, as well as a graphic realization of Jean-Matthieu Gosselin and Ullic-Morard, to denounce: the absence of debates, political violence, « consented fascism », the monopolization of the media, and the permanent lies.
We have no doubt that the 45th President of the United States, often referring to Abraham Lincoln, would appreciate this album (it’s his!), cause as the 16th President of the United States wrote: “No man has enough of memory to succeed in lying.”
AUTHORS: COLLECTIVE
Two authors, one French and one Franco-Italian, used to working together.
Jean-Matthieu Gosselin
Ullic Morard-Narducci
Jean-Matthieu Gosselin and Ullic Morard, lovers of images and poetry, believe in the ability of creators to act on the world in which they live. Their photographs seek to unite in their work: utopia, memory, creation, politique and transmission.
ULLIC MORARD
Ullic Morard, born in France in 1980, lived most of his life in Italy, where he studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Turin. Then he took photography courses, including workshops with the « American agency Seven ». He graduated from the “Narrative Itinerary Course of the Grisart International School of Photography” in Barcelona in 2018.
For 16 years and the years 2008 he has been producing series of photographs including his project “Dark Night” completed in 2015, followed by participation in the “The Others” festival in Turin in 2015, then in the “Head On” photography festival in Sydney in 2016, which concludes the festival’s Finalist Awards.
He participated in a group exhibition at the 2018 “Turin Photography Festival”.
He participates in the “OFF” of Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2019 as part of the La Roquette exhibition organized by “Regards & Mémoires”; the same year, Ullic worked on documentary projects: a report in Cambodia, then one in Ceylon, followed by reports in the Australian desert.
In 2020 he participated in an exhibition in France, in Annecy; and in 2021 he exhibited at the “Head On” photography festival in Sydney.
In 2022 he participates in a group exhibition in Annecy.
He presented a new work “Tesseract” during Les 54th Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles 2023.
Through his academic training Ullic approaches architecture, geometry, the purity of lines, textures, as well as nocturnal appearances, particularly in the landscape.
JEAN-MATTHIEU GOSSELIN
Jean-Matthieu Gosselin (Libourne, France, 1960) graduated in museology and art history (École du Louvre and Sorbonne). He worked for years as a journalist, editorial manager and, later, as Director and CEO of publishing houses in France, Italy, Spain, and Mexico.
In 2013, he suffered a big stroke (ictus). Over the next five years, he underwent a long rehabilitation at the Madrazo Medical Center in Barcelona. In 2015 he began phototherapy courses; then in 2017 and 2018 he followed “The professional photography studies course” at the Grisart Escola Internacional de Fotografía – Visual Culture Tech Education in Barcelona, from which he graduated.
His photographic works have been exhibited in different contexts and countries:
During the “Off” of Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2019 as part of the La Roquette exhibition organized by “Regards & Mémoires”; at the Grisart photography school (Barcelona, 2020 and 2022), with “No Surrender” (on his rehabilitation), then “Memorial Drive”; at the Panoràmic Festival (Granollers-Barcelona), 2020, with “No Surrender”, and in a summarized version at the Lumínic Festival (Sant Cugat, 2021).
In spring 2022, he presents “Memorial Drive” (on memory, artistic and aesthetic memories) in Barcelona, and then “Before memories fade” (on Barcelona its photographic territory) at BdB, still in the Catalan city; in the autumn of 2022, he exhibits this work in Belmont-de-la-Loire in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in France; it will be exhibited in 2023 in the Rhône department in the town of Cours.
In May 2023 he exhibited his work “Au nom de l’amitié” (on his vision of the spiritual) at the Prieuré de Grandmont located in Villeloin-Coulangé (France); exhibition which will be presented in Sainte-Suzanne in the 1st quarter of 2024. He exhibited “Memorial Drive” at Les 54th Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2023. In 2024 he will exhibit, in July, in Barcelona in Las Corts a new work: “Getaway Memories”; and in October. He is a finalist in October 2024, with Ullic Morard, of the Open Call of the Panoramic Festival of Granollers and Barcelona, with his work: “Trump Park”.
