There are mechanisms so deeply rooted in the inner self, that scrutinising them seems like a form of excavation.
The intimate processes involved in the construction of the individual continue to be reflected as the foundation of Marielsa Niels’ work. However, by attempting to corrode the fatalism of the concept of norm, and more specifically that of binarity, this series seems to augur for even sharper explorations.
The narrative form of this work contributes to the sagacity of the reflections. This is not to illustrate the understanding of an abstract notion, but to bring out the conflicts it is able to engender in the depths of being.
In the inner self begins the paroxysm of this alienation. So there is nothing trivial about it being crushed by an immeasurable weighty screed that is first of all discerned. At the whim of the narration, the photographer exhumes the internal quarrels, reveals the pathways, detects inertia. Yet, through the ambivalence of the symbolic hues and positions of the body, our gaze strives to unmask, without our even realizing it, the nature of this figure. And the game of standards is a game of fools.
Therefore, more than an invitation, the photographer engages us. And it is almost without our knowledge that we take the risk, according to certain images, to reveal ourselves judge and part. Because in fact, Marielsa Niels refers us to our own apprehension of norms, intimate, almost intrinsic by force of acceptance. She reminds us that these are so, insidiously enveloping.
Anne Eléonore GAGNON – 03/2019
Marielsa Niels – In the den of the self. Alteration of the principle of binarity
From September 14 – November 02, 2019
TRUE DREAMS Gallery
6 rue Dumenge
69004 LYON
