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Christian Lutz

Christian Lutz

In Jesus' Name

Nom(s)

Christian Lutz (1973)

Website(s)

christianlutz.org

Instagram

@christianlutzphotography

Emploi

100% photographer

Formation

Bachelor, Ecole supérieure des Arts de l’Image Le 75, Brussels (BE), 1995

Titre

In Jesus’ Name

Année de création

2013–2024

Lieu de création

Switzerland

Contexte de création

Personal

Collaborateur(trice)(s)

Pablo Lavalley

Objet(s) présenté(s)

Wallpapers

Dimensions

120 × 150 cm

Formats / Durée

4 wallpapers (120 × 150 cm each)

Matériau(x)

Blueback paper

Fournisseur(s) de matériel

Photorotation, Geneva

With the agreement of the ICF church leaders, Christian Lutz photographed the congregation and its followers over the span of a year. 

A few days after his book In Jesus’ Name was published, a lawyer, hired by the ICF and representing 21 followers, protagonists in the photographs, filed a complaint and obtained an immediate ban on the book. Christian Lutz reacted by revisiting the banned photographs and delivering new images blacked out with thick banners. It is now impossible to recognise the faces. As an expression of prejudice, the text of the complaints filed by the plaintiffs is printed over this obliteration. From a work banned stems a new, even stronger one. In the urge to interpret images, one tends to project in them one’s own beliefs and doubts, and soon emerges the certainty of seeing in them what was feared.