The exhibition is called “Immortal”, in which the Australian photographer Vee Speers works on the myth of eternal youth, revisiting the codes of the human vanity.
“We all think about death but we cannot imagine ourselves aging. Our society is obsessed with the idea of stopping the passing of time to avoid the unavoidable: death. By living with my teenage girls I face my own mortality – A sweet measure of the passing of time and ephemeral beauty. I watch them at the absolute summit of their youth and they already seem vulnerable and within the ignorance of their perfection,
The escape of adolescents into fantasy is just as important as in childhood, only as young adults the escape is quite often into the virtual world of film, television and internet. So the imagery I have created is an isolated world unique to them, somewhere between fantasy and reality. I want them to be alone, standing like fallen angels, but still part of a common world.”
Vee Speers, Immortal
Until August 31
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41, rue d’Artois
75008 Paris
