Born in 1963 in Metz

Philippe Lopparelli likes to take time, or waste it, on purpose. For more than fifteen years, his work has focused on places where time no longer works the way it does in the normal world, on places where time is distended, dilated, at times incomplete, and where the codes that regulate human behaviour are no longer the same. He spent ten years surveying the universe of electronic music, its festivals and clandestine get-togethers across Europe. “Electrotopia”  explores the effervescence of the masses that meet spontaneously in a world where night and morning blend and where time is regulated by sound.
He travelled to the French antipodes and Antarctica, and then to Iceland, looking for an “Other Eden”: isolated spaces and societies made up of Robinson Crusoes, where life has lost its bearings and needs to find others, where other norms hold sway.
In zoos, other worlds within the city, and places of inversion where no one knows who is the man and who is the beast, he shows the cries and odours, the jungle of animals staring back at a human one. “In Custody” dissects prison life in zoos. In “First sentence”, he slips into the time zone of a prison for minors, places where suffering is measured out in terms of stolen time.