She knows that it’s serious. She knows that it’s important. She knows that I’m going to ask her questions about her work, her background, her photographs. She knows I want to know. But she can’t help but smile, or doesn’t want to stop herself. The situation amuses her. She doesn’t like to talk about her work.
“Honestly, I don’t know what to say. I want you to be free, stripped bare of codes and references. It’s better to look at these naked bodies with a naked eye. I’m not what’s important. Neither are my photos… It’s the moment where you capture your subject, the moment you take the picture, that’s what’s intense. If it turns out that someone is moved by the photograph, that’s exciting, too. But we can’t explain why. Otherwise we’d have to undergo psychoanalysis every time we fell in love.”
Well then, let’s begin with her childhood. Barbara Rix grew up far away, somewhere on the shores of the Baltic Sea, in Kiel, Germany. In this “perfectly normal” childhood, far from the art world, she got hungry. Hungry to get closer. Hungry to be there.
Read the full article on the French version of L’Oeil.
EXHIBITION
UN NU, Sonia, Barbara et Jeanloup Sieff
From December 4 to December 21st 2014
Hôtel de Sauroy
58 rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France
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