More than Violet
Nonchalant but vulnerable, cocky but with childlike playfulness, inviting and at the same time forbidding, this is how the models in Julia Peirone’s new photographic series appear. Here, the viewer encounters young girls in between childhood and womanhood, captured in millisecond’s uningratiating gestures. It is girly in a pastel-coloured, chewing-gum chewing way, and at the same time disturbingly intimate and exposed.
With their gaze the viewers balance on the delicate boundary between sexualisation and exploitation, and are compelled to face their inner “male gaze”. In her work, Julie Peirone explores the psychology , the gradual passage from the juvenile to the self-aware female, as well as the viewer’s relationship to the viewed. The girls are deprived of the disguise of gestures and facial expressions and positioned in a kind of nakedness.
Born in 1973, Julia Peirone lives and works in Stockholm. She is graduated from the University of Film and Photography (BFA) of Gothenburg and the Konstfack, University College of Art, Craft and Design (MFA) of Stockholm.
Facing youth
September 14 – October 28, 2012
Mosteiro de Tibães
Rua do Mosteiro – Mire de Tibães
Braga, Portugal
