A Crisis of Masculinity? The Gradual Liquefaction of Identities

An interview with artist Jj Levine is presented. Levine said that during my exhibition at La Centrale, someone said to me, I understand why there are images of the two of you and your child and of your friends and their children, but not why there are also images of people without children. I answered that that was precisely the goal of the exhibition: to broaden the idea of family to include friends, relations, everyone who feels committed to someone else. But even before I had a child, and before my friends did, I used the word family to talk about the people I portray in my work. I have close ties with all the people in my images. That's what makes it possible to spend lots of time with them to create a portrait. It takes me between four and eight hours to produce ten or so negatives. The slowness of the process is linked to the care that we take of each other.