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AVAILABLE AT THE BOOKSTORE: Valérie Belin - Galerie Xippas, 2002
This catalog documents Valérie Belin’s fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Xippas. The Masks series, similar to her previous series Mannequins and Doubles, consists of “portraits.” However, unlike the earlier works, where reality was observed to reveal its falsehoods, the masks—photographs executed in a “realist” style—leave no room for illusion. The object is immediately presented with its function as an illusory and grotesque disguise, yet the face that emerges from it also achieves a certain level of plausibility. One might say, perhaps, that the grotesque becomes reality.
Published by La Galerie Xippas, 2002
AVAILABLE AT THE BOOKSTORE: Valérie Belin - Galerie Xippas, 2002
This catalog documents Valérie Belin’s fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Xippas. The Masks series, similar to her previous series Mannequins and Doubles, consists of “portraits.” However, unlike the earlier works, where reality was observed to reveal its falsehoods, the masks—photographs executed in a “realist” style—leave no room for illusion. The object is immediately presented with its function as an illusory and grotesque disguise, yet the face that emerges from it also achieves a certain level of plausibility. One might say, perhaps, that the grotesque becomes reality.
Published by La Galerie Xippas, 2002
