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Léon Dubois is a visual artist based in Alexandria (EG) and specialized in the photographic contemporary interpretation of novels and literature. Since 2020, his collection "Maalesh, voyage en Méditerranée", inspired by Jean Cocteau's trip to Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece, has been shown in several international exhibitions in the MENA region. Using exclusively black and white film photography, his artistic research explores the relationship between historical archives and collective memory. For the last two years his ongoing project “Looking for the Little Prince” aims to recreate a modern and postcolonial figure of the Little Prince by collecting personal memories from nowadays’ readers through the world. He is a grantee of Ateliers Médicis (Paris) and several artistic residencies in France and Egypt for the year 2023.
These artistic projects aims to connect different cultures and gather the mediterranean people around a common literature. The studies of Jean Cocteau or The Little Prince allows me to express with photography our relation to the mediterranean. Using literature and photography is a way to reach a bigger audience and access to a better accessibility of arts and reflexions.
- 2022 : Alexandria Today Week (Co-funded by the E.U. in partnership with l'Art Rue, Anna Lindh Foundation, Shelter Art Space and 6 Bab Sharq)
- 2022-2025 : Looking for the Little Prince (An exploration of the representation of The Little Prince through the world)
- 2019-2022 : Maalesh, Voyage en Méditerranée (About Jean Cocteau's Mediterranean journey in 1949)
- 2015-2018 : Calais, en attendant la terre promise (About migration and refugees camps in France)