In times of virtual images, Gilbert Garcin tinker small stagings with next to nothing, glue, scissors, a few poor materials. It multiplies the winks, turns the references, you could say that he enjoys. Quite the contrary: he plays. For Gilbert Garcin is the subject and the object of his own images. This by itself would turn it back on a continual self?
A cross-dressing as a character ubiquitous in inventing the incredible adventures in surrealist settings, the incorrigible man continues to laugh at himself. The photograph becomes "the image that I am the hero", multiplying the episodes of a comic illusion constantly renewed. In this self-portrait in the form of images, the photographer looks at the photographer, perhaps pretending to be a photographer … Yves Gerbal