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Anaïs Boudot’s work has always been rooted in a dialectic between light and shadow, the visible and the invisible, with glass plates as her medium of choice; she plays with their transparency and opacity, highlighting their inherent ambiguities. This time, she works with glass plates from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s found at her parents’ home—portraits of anonymous women photographed head-on, whose obscure presence she transforms. Transforming the tradition of vernacular portraiture into an artistic exploration of great formal richness, she adopts an aesthetic approach in which women are sublimated with a clear intention to rehabilitate them, whereas her illustrious predecessors, Brassaï and Picasso, exploited the feminine as a motif in the service of a visual exploration on glass plate.
Published by The Eyes Publishing, 2021
Bilingual edition (French–English)
ISBN
Anaïs Boudot’s work has always been rooted in a dialectic between light and shadow, the visible and the invisible, with glass plates as her medium of choice; she plays with their transparency and opacity, highlighting their inherent ambiguities. This time, she works with glass plates from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s found at her parents’ home—portraits of anonymous women photographed head-on, whose obscure presence she transforms. Transforming the tradition of vernacular portraiture into an artistic exploration of great formal richness, she adopts an aesthetic approach in which women are sublimated with a clear intention to rehabilitate them, whereas her illustrious predecessors, Brassaï and Picasso, exploited the feminine as a motif in the service of a visual exploration on glass plate.
Published by The Eyes Publishing, 2021
Bilingual edition (French–English)
ISBN
