Shanghai Sorrow

After the death of his father, Léopold Prudon moved to Shanghai for a year. A new, unknown world, where he observes the shapes of the city without thinking any more about nothing. This is how he mourns in this foreign city that reveals itself in fragments, according to the frames, through an elegant and refined black and white: horizon lines broken by the tops of skyscrapers, the curves of concrete of motorway interchanges, anonymous passers-by or even the neon lights of Sinograms that flash in the night. Images on which are superimposed fragments of poems related to his father's death and dialogues from small talk — as if to emphasize that life goes on. Through this melancholic walk, Léopold Prudon recounts the shock and the pain caused by mourning as well as the paradoxes of a megacity gigantic and ultramodern, which can however, at the turn of a street, take the appearance of a village. Shanghai Chagrin is the first work of Léopold Prudon published by The Association.