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Affichage des articles du septembre 20, 2015

ANOTHER DISTURBING ARTIST .......

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No title - 2006 Valerie Belin is also a photographer which made me feel uneasy. In between Milan, the Palais du Tokyo with the Thai artist and now Valerie, I seem to be looking at work which is not so easy to digest. The question which one can ask, is what causes the latent unease produced by her photographs ? Could it be that the mannequins look like real people in shop windows or the disturbingly fixed expressions of the faces turns them into genuine people. No title - 2004 No title - 2004 Is it Michael Jackson? Is it someone else we know? Michael Jackson? The photos left me in a state of uncertainty. They are uncanny, mannequins, stereotypes. There is nothing reassuring about them at all…..what do you think? No title - 2006 No title - 2006 BOB, 2012 BOB, 2012 Before you answer, just a few words about her. She is French, born in 1964 and after her studies at the Sorbonne, now works and lives in Paris. I’m gl