For Harald Fernagu being a killjoy is denouncing someone who disturbs the \u00adestablished order, i.e., the contemporary social order decided and calibrated by \u201cthe arbitrary logic of markets that continuously reinvents the value of goods and beings,\u201d* which is conveyed as the El Dorado of our lives. This notion of well-being celebrates \u201ccapitalism\u2019s scandalous frivolousness.\u201d* The photographic portraits of members of the Emmaus community were developed with the same pleasure found in role-playing by these individuals excluded from the social order. This experience of pleasure is like a celebration, a coming to power over the logic of \u00adrepresentation. It\u2019s a \u201ckilljoy\u201d celebration by the sheer pleasure of being. Harald Fernagu lives and works in Dijon. Since 1998 he has involved members of the Burgundy Emmaus community in his photographic practice. He also explores sculpture and questions the artwork as a social actor as well as the limits of contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Jean-Yves Jouannais, \u00ab De ces guerres que l\u2019on se bricole \u00bb, Semaine 09.09 :  Harald Fernagu<\/em>, Paris, Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Ch\u00e2tre, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n