A career begun with beauty gave Ann Massal the feeling that Plato’s precepts on beauty as truth had long since died. As a result, she decided to study photography at London’s St Martins School as well as at the Atelier Smedsby to express her point of view. With similarities to the crazy world of Alice in Wonderland, Ann Massal’s photographs are never predictable. Through a range of varied techniques (cutting, coloring, decomposition, degradations), she deforms the images to offer us her vision of beauty: ambiguous, subversive and always colorful.
The Eye of the Cyclops is published in a limited edition of 1000 copies. Each book is unique because the covers have been pierced individually by a hammer by the artist herself. Each copy is also numbered, signed and blessed by the artist.
Excerpt from Ann Massal’s interview by Angelo Cirimele:
“Is it animality that interests you in humans? While you are very cerebral …
Yes. For me, in my images, there is no pornography, it is a natural act. We ritualised the sexual act, whereas at the beginning, it is an act of animal reproduction. In the same way that we have ritualised feeding ourselves, whereas at the beginning it is a vital, animal function. And animality does not seem to me accepted by a lot of people. ”
Ann Massal – The Eye of the Cyclops
With an interview with Ann Massal by Angelo Cirimele Design by João Linneu
Silkscreen printed soft cover with printed jacket and flaps featuring one to several holes handmade by the artist
24 x 32 cm, 144 pages
72 color images and 20 black & white illustrations French / English
ISBN 978-3-86828-924-4
Euros 49.90
