AVAILABLE AT THE BOOKSTORE: Valérie Belin - Galerie Xippas, 2002
This catalog covers Valérie Belin's fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Xippas. The Masks series, similar to her earlier Mannequins and Doubles series, consists of "portraits". However, unlike the previous series, in which we observed reality in order to notice its falsities, the Masks - photographs produced in the "realist" style - do not make illusions. The object is immediately presented with its function as an illusory, grotesque disguise, but the face that emerges also achieves a certain level of plausibility. We could say, perhaps, that the grotesque becomes reality.
Published by Galerie Xippas, 2002
AVAILABLE AT THE BOOKSTORE: Valérie Belin - Galerie Xippas, 2002
This catalog covers Valérie Belin's fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Xippas. The Masks series, similar to her earlier Mannequins and Doubles series, consists of "portraits". However, unlike the previous series, in which we observed reality in order to notice its falsities, the Masks - photographs produced in the "realist" style - do not make illusions. The object is immediately presented with its function as an illusory, grotesque disguise, but the face that emerges also achieves a certain level of plausibility. We could say, perhaps, that the grotesque becomes reality.
Published by Galerie Xippas, 2002
