Author Description

For thirty years now, Gao Bo has been fashioning a body of work that is at the crossroad of photography, installation art and performance. This vocation came to him after his first trip to Tibet, where he returned many times throughout the 1980s and the 1990s.0His first trip to Tibet was in 1985, where he realized a series of portraits of striking classicism and mastery. Intrigued by this world, confronted with an alterity in which he instantly detected a deep familiarity. He immortalized the millenary rites of the Buddhist monks, the daily life of a people imprinted of spirituality, in this mineral and grandiose landscape, between heaven and earth.0Using photographic material produced during his first trips to Tibet, he returned to his prints and covered them with ink, paint and his own blood. Gao Bo started to feel the limits of his photographic practice and begins a process of questioning and reinvention it, under the influence of Marcel Duchamp and the thought of Lao Tzu.00Exhibition: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (08.02. - 09.04.2017).