He studied at Villa Arson, Nice and was a resident artist at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2003-2004 and in Villa Medici in Rome until April 2007. With various modes of expression as photography, writing, performances, video and installations, the activities of Jean-Baptiste Ganne are articulated around the “representation of politics and the politic of representations”…
Jean-Baptiste Ganne is a photographer and artist who frequently collects and captures images which seemingly have no meaning and places them in the context of the social and economic realities of globalization—to gain new meaning and texture…
Jean-Baptiste Ganne’s series of photographs aim at illustrating chapter headings of the book one of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital with documentary images of everyday life. His enterprise evokes both an ingenuous desire to see if Marx’s analysis of industrial society still holds true today, and the inevitable discrepancy between past and present, theory and reality…