Until October 6, Mathilde Marc is exhibiting 25 portraits of actresses at the hotel La Louisiane! She presents them as follows:
Rôles modèles is a series of portraits, an exercise in admiration, a human and artistic adventure. This title, Model Roles, refers to the term invented by the sociologist Robert King Merton, designating people whose background or work allows them to identify themselves, to project themselves. Several years ago, after reading two works questioning the representation of women over fifty in our society, Best love Rosie by Nuala O’faolain and Sorcières by Mona Chollet, I realized that in my own work, as a photographer and director, I had rarely had the opportunity to portray older women. At the same time, the AAFA association launched the manifesto on the tunnel of the over fifty years old actresses, in order to denounce the invisibility of women beyond this age, considered fateful, in cinema and on television. Discussing age in art circles is particularly delicate and taboo. I wanted to consider old age and experience as assets, an opportunity to tell other stories. At the end of 2019, I began my first portraits of actresses of different generations, from 50 to 90 years old. Women with varied careers, known or lesser known, all with the desire to create without hindrance, continually reinventing themselves. Since 2022, the representation of women over fifty has become a recurring theme in books and magazines. But on the covers the so-called “natural” photographs they are non-existent, either they are very retouched, the visible signs of age are erased, or they are illustrations. There is a gulf between this universal interest in time, its effects on our affects, our bodies and its non-representation.
Mathilde Marc
Mathilde Marc : Rôles modèles
Until October 6, 2024
Hôtel La Louisiane
60, rue de Seine
75006 Paris
[email protected]
www.mathildemarc.fr
Instagram : _mathilde_marc_
