Since the 1990s, the photographs of Laurence Demaison have gone beyond the genre of self-portrait to offer a deeply original vision that is at once multi-faceted and coherent. Although for many artists the representation of the self remains a sublime reflection of the author, here Demaison deforms her body and face, creating an otherness that conceals her true image. There’s a Surrealist touch to these series, which bear comic titles reminding the viewer that it’s all an invention. The representation of the body is the source of a long process of experimentation. Demaison draws on the technical possibilities of film, playing with exposure times, the focus, the contrast and the negative to create fascinating and singular images.
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Laurence Demaison: œuvres récentes
30.01 – 09.03.2013
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris
France
Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50
Tuesday – Saturday 2pm – 6pm
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