One of the major highlight of the Photo London program is Valérie Belin recipient of the Master Photography 2024, her solo exhibition “Silent Stories” offers a retrospective of her Berlin work spanning three decades.
Throughout her career, Belin has explored the tension between the superficial appearance of things and their true nature. Often using the human body as a vessel for abstraction and projected meaning, she has photographed live models and mannequins, masks and card sharks, dancers and bodybuilders, questioning the construction and fetishization of mainstream beauty ideals and enduring gender constructs.
The series of images are In the words of the creator, “neither narrative nor documentary and tell no particular stories, but should be seen as a mirror of actions without words.”
Photo London
16 – 19 May 2024
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
www.Photolondon.org
