"Libres Caractères", French Institute, Mauritius, May-July 2010

For Maurice French Institute opening by Le Clézio, Gérard Rondeau made portraits of about thirty Mauritian people. Painter, filmmaker, architect, theater man and woman as Miselaine Duval, dancer, writer, poet with Edouard Maunick, musician of course as Menwar, Vincent Brasse or Michel Legris, but also biologist, chemist, historian... Photography as a bridge between disciplines and between cultures - Gérard Rondeau combined these portraits to those of foreign figures as Sarraute, Sonntag, Lichtenstein...