This unusual encounter gave rise to a new dialogue between the black and white photographic portraits of François Brunelle, a specialist in look-alike photographs, and their ancient alter ego paintings on loan from the Geneva Museum and the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art. Their confrontation, already eloquent, is completed by 3D printing masks made by the epithetical laboratory of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval. He has done a remarkable job of reconstructing the face in the medical field. They are therefore true current masterpieces that represent the features of the doubles participating in the exhibition.

My 2000-year-old Double offers visitors a random non-linear itinerary that includes four thematic areas. The first presents in particular the photographer François Brunelle, the genesis of the exhibition and the term "look-alike" as well as a making-of of the project. The second zone is composed of the seven almost perfect doubles, i.e. duos that are very similar physically and are self-sufficient. The third area highlights the life stories and stories of the doubles by highlighting the similarities between their lives and those of their counterparts in antiquity. Finally, the last area presents the art of portraiture between Antiquity and today, by exhibiting portraits of memory, portraits of influence, as well as two portraits of babies - My baby is 2000 years old - from a competition held in collaboration with the daily newspaper Le Soleil in May 2018.

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