Cheyco Leidmann does not hesitate to present marginal beings who are most often drug addicts, unemployed, tramps, criminals, sex workers, transgender people... Images which are often difficult and unbearable to see because they are all of a great cruelty, impregnated with smells of sex, blood
Cheyco Leidmann does not hesitate to present marginal beings who are most often drug addicts, unemployed, tramps, criminals, sex workers, transgender people... Images which are often difficult and unbearable to see because they are all of a great cruelty, impregnated with smells of sex, blood and fury.
In line with many philosophers and writers of our time the artist makes the same observation as writes, in particular, Marcel Gauchet (see his book "Disenchantment of the world") of this chaos of
things by the chaos of beings. This relentless logic that leads to the transformation of things by the transformation of men into things.
Hypersensitive, he sees art as emotion. He always finds behind the brutality of his images and even death and misery, a form of beauty. In fact he constantly breaks the taboos aesthetic canons.
For Cheyko Leidmann, the technique is secondary. The photographic quality is first of all the impression he is looking for, this mini-second that allows you to lift the veil.
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