CÉLINE MANZ
Céline Manz
Born in 1981 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Initiator of the artist-run space STUDIO 47 and the Amsterdam-based publishing platform STUDIO 47 PRESS.
She is currently doing an MA in Contemporary Art Practice - Critical Practice at the Royal College of Art in London (UK).
Studies
2011-2013 — Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2009-2011 — École d'Art Appliqués, Vevey (CH)
Grants, Awards & special Programs
2017 — Prix Photoforum 2017, nominee short list, (CH)
2017 International short fiction film competition of the 16th Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival luff, short list (CH)
2016 — Projektbeitrag Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt (CH)
2015 — Werkbeitrag Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt (CH)
2015 — Message in a Photo Foundation (Miap) (NL)
2015 — Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)
2015 — Kulturpauschale Basel-Stadt (CH)
2015 — kulturelles.bl (CH)
2014/2015 — 3Package Deal - Grant by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK) and Bureau Broedplaatsen (BBP) in collaboration with FOAM, Gerrit Rietveld Academie and de Appel Arts Centre (NL)
2014/2015 — 'Talent ontmoet Talent' - Program by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW), Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — Prix Photoforum 2013, nominee short list, (CH)
2013 — Nominee Gogbot Youngblood Award 2013 (NL)
2013 — Gerrit Rietveld Award, nominee Fine Arts (NL)
2013 — European Photography Award, nominee short list
2013 - Christine Stichting (NL)
2012 - Patronagefonds Basler Kunstverein (CH)
2011 — VFG Nachwuchsförderpreis 2011, Runners up (CH)
Shows & Fairs
2017 Prix Photoforum Photoforum Pasquart Bienne (CH)
2017 Up & Coming presents: Offline, Weinbergstrasse, Zurich (CH)
2017 STAMPA:Talkshow over kunst en kwesties, W139 Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Master Lecture by Céline Manz, Nederlands Film Academy Amsterdam
2017 - Chäs u Chole - Group exhibition at Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH)
2016Waltzing - Episode RietveldTV airing December 24th and 25th on AT5 (NL)
2016 - Polly's Playground @ Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn (NL)
2016 - Museumsnacht 2016 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (NL)
2016 - Ausstellung Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt 2016 Kunsthalle Basel (CH)
2016 - Céline Manz: Rythme sans fin, N° 1 - 1832. Exhibition and artist talk, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 - 'UNLOCKED', Atopos, Athens (GR)
2016 - 'De Correspondent presenteert Artfest: De Copyrighteditie', Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
2016 - Nieuwe Aanwinsten AMC-collectie AMC Brummelkamp Galerie, Amsterdam
2015/2016 - VBCN 10 Jaar Jong - Exhibition curated by Alix de Massiac and Vincent van Velsen, VBCN Open Space Amsterdam (NL)
2015 - With STUDIO 47: UNSEEN Photo Fair Amsterdam (NL)
2015 - With STUDIO 47: Alt_chp Alternative Art Fair Copenhagen (DK)
2015 - Dead Darlings 8 Anonymous Art Auction, Looiersgracht 60 Amsterdam (NL)
2015 - במה ללא במה - Stage without stage - Evening of multimedia performances by Yuli Kovbasnian and Céline Manz, Anna Loulou Bar, Tel Aviv (IL)
2014/2015 — Founder and Curator of STUDIO 47 and studio-47.org (NL)
2014/2015 — TRAINS - Céline Manz & Jacqueline de Jong, Sociëteit De Kring, Amsterdam (NL)
2014 — The Current Obsession Fake Christmas Show, Subbacultcha!, Amsterdam (NL)
2014 — Hungry for Love - The Exhibition: Céline Manz & Xavier Fernandez Fuentes show selected posters from Hungry for Love, WoW, Amsterdam (NL)
2014 — Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam Downtown Program: New Dawn Paper & Volkshotel present 'The Folk Revisited' - Group Show, Volkshotel, Amsterdam (NL)
2014 — Gazing Upon My Reflection - Group Show, Schwarzwaldallee, Basel (CH)
2014 — Anna Loulou presents: Darkness No3 - Performance of Interference with Yuli Kovbasnian, Anna Loulou Bar, Tel Aviv-Jaffa (IL)
2014 — 1st - Solo Show, Island Hamburg (DE)
2014 — Interference - Presentation of the work in process "online" with Choreographer Yuli Kovbasnian, Gallery Hanut31, Tel Aviv (IL)
2013/2014 — Prix Photoforum 2013: Selection | Auswahl, Group Show, Photophorum Pasquart, Bienne (CH)
2013 — Art in Redlight 9, Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — Beurs van Kleine Uitgevers, Paradiso Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — The Back Room - Impromptu Art Market and Group Show, Looiersgracht60 Project Space, Amsterdam (NL)
2013/2014 — Undercover, Museum For Contemporary Art Erata, Group Show, Saint Petersburg (RU)
2013 — (S)elected Amsterdam Art Weekend, Group Show, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — (S)elected Sunday Salon, Artist Talk with Sacha Bronwasser, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — (S)elected - Gerrit Rietveld Awards Show, Group Show, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — ReadArt Down The Rabbit Hole, Group Show, Lichtfabriek, Haarlem (NL)
2013 — Tokyo Art Book Fair, Tokyo (JP)
2013 — Gogbot Youndblood Graduates 2013, Group Show, Tetem Kunstriumte, Enschede (NL)
2013 — Graduation Show, Group Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — Growing Between Spaces, Group Show, Hotel Arena, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — New Dutch Photography Talent, Group Show, GUP, Amsterdam (NL)
2012 — The Ultimate Performance — No More Boring Art, Group Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2012 — Foam Lab presents: ShortCut — One Day Exhibition Contest, Group Show, winning project, De Verdieping, Amsterdam (NL)
2012 — Somatic Intersection, Group Show, WG Punt, Amsterdam (NL)
2012 — Transmit, Group Show, P/////AKT, Amsterdam (NL)
2012 — Transmit, Group Show, Sint Lukas Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2011 — Rietveld Uncut — The Living Object, Group Show and Performance, The Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, (NL)
2011 — Vanitas Objects, Solo Exhibition, Provisorische Tramhaltestelle, Basel (CH)
2010 — Portes ouvertes, Group Show, CEPV, Vevey (CH)
2009 — Werkschau — Der Berner Salon, Group Show, Berne (CH)
2009 — GAF Stellt Aus, Im Viadukt, Group Show, Zurich (CH)
Publications
2015 — (Editor) Sonia de Jager: The Author Has Collected The Remarks Of Various People...", Brochure, STUDIO 47 PRESS, Amsterdam, ISBN:978-90-822850-0-0 (NL)
2015 — (Editor) Sonia de Jager & Lotte Reimann: Venus de Milo is a man, Audio cassette and foldout, STUDIO 47 PRESS, Amsterdam, ISBN:978-90-822850-1-7 (NL)
2014 — Hungry for Love, collaboration with Xavier Fernandez Fuentes, artist book, ISBN: 978-90-817584-3-7, online publication, Amsterdam (NL)
2014 — The Appropriators User Guide - Interactive PDF for the students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — The Appropriators User Guide - The Checklist, on 1000 Things, Encyclopedia of the Studium Generale at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, De Hague (NL)
2013 — The Appropriators User Guide, artist book, self published, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 — What Do You Know About Art, You're Not A Lawyer, Essay, PDF, Amsterdam (NL)
Catalogues
2017 —Polly's Picture Show - Polly's Playground, ISBN: 978-90-79479-07-8 (NL)
2016 —Atopos: UNLOCKED - Book (GR)
2015 — Het Grote Amsterdamse Kunstkalender 2016 (NL)
2015 — Up & Coming - digitaler Katalog der jungen Kunst (CH)
2013 — New Dutch Photography Talent 2013, catalogue, GUP magazine, xpublishers BV, Amsterdam (NL)
Commissions
2016 - Museumsnacht 2016 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Tubelight N° 100, 09.2016: "Sorry, copyright"
2016 Metropolis M Nr 3 2016 - The Triangular Nature of Desire
2015 —VBCN 10 Jaar Jong
2014 — Metropolis M Nr 3 2014 - Summer of Love & Hate: Tribute to Ed van der Elsken
2014 —7000words.com
2009 — Vincent unser, collaboration with Andreas Schneitter. Publication of Basler Zeitung for the Van Gogh Exhibition at Museum of Arts in Basel (CH)
Selected Press
Metropolis M: Vijf jaar later 5 x Eindexamenspecial - hoe is het de kunstenaars uit 2013 vergaan?
Vrijplaats - Interview in Tubelight Magazine, 09.2016 (NL)
Juxtapoz Magazine, Unlocking Depictions of the Naked Body in the Digital Era, 05.04.2016 (USA)
Interview in Amc Magazine, 04/2016 (NL)
LIFO.gr, 27 φωτογραφίες από την έκδοση Unlocked της ATOPOS cvc (NSFW) Πηγή, 10.03.2016 (GR)
Dreck Mag.com, 23.02.2016 (GB)
LIFO Magazine (print), 20.02.2016 (GR)
Nakid Magazine, 17.02.2016 (USA)
de Correspondent.nl, Interview Céline Manz 23.01.2016
RTL Z, Van Liempt Live, 16.12.2015
STUDIO 47: Zero1magazine, 09.2015
STUDIO 47: TIME.com: 10 Things to do at UNSEEN Photo Fair, 09.2015
UNSEEN Magazine: Interview Céline Manz on STUDIO 47, 09.2015
STUDIO 47: We are Public, 09.2015
AFK 3Package Deal e-zine June 2015
De Appel Arts Center, 29.05.2015
Self Publish, Be Happy 31.12.2014
Het Parool: "Céline Manz: Auteursrecht leeft niet bij jongeren" by Lorianne van Gelder. 10.12.2014
Corporate film Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) November 2014
Current Obsession No3: The Fake Issue
Art - Das Kunstmagazin: Akt Now 06.05.2014
Blonde Magazine 02/2014: The Arty Farty Issue
032c.com: Tissue Magazine's Uwe Jens Bermeitinger shares 8 of his favorite Tumblrs
The Art of Internet 20.03.2014
Tissue Magazine March 17th 2014
De Volkskrant Magazine | March 15th 2014
De Volkskrant | Review on Hungry for Love by Jeanne Prisser, March 14th 2014
Hayzed Magazine | Issue 2 // December 2013, cover
Beurs van Kleine Uitgevers Paradiso - Beursberichten, December 8th 2013, page 9
De Volkskrant | Review on (S)elected at Castrum Peregrini by Jeanne Prisser, November 29th 2013
Glamcult Magazine | Issue 8 // October 2013
Metropolis M | 4/2013: A1 on the cover of the Endexam special 2013
Kunstbeeld.nl: Met vlag en wimpel
Metropolis M: Rietveld Graduation Show 2013
Arts Thread Blog: Highlights of the Gerrit Rietveld Graduation Show 2013
Antiorde: Gerrit Rietveld Graduation Show 2013
Leaving Traces - Graduates 2013, interviews and portraits of graduates from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam. Rieder Willem (Ed.), Blurb. E-book
SSBA-SALON | REVIEW: FoamLab presents Shortcut. By Joris Bunder, october 15 2012. (Team 2)
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Torsos
ongoing
Mixed media
Rythme sans fin
ongoing
Mixed media
Series of case studies that investigate issues around legacy and copyright in digital age.
Website including the research here
Images: Kunsthalle Basel, courtesy of Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, photos by Nici Jost.
Screen_
2017
Html
Part of
Ada W. Potter's project SCREEN_ [ "screenspace"] is an email-based art "space" that produces monthly artworks, sent/received via email. Each participating artist creates a unique artwork for each installment. Email recipients are asked to subscribe. This opt-in structure is meant to elicit an engaged audience and help the project avoid spam status. Subscribe here
OPEN CALL: tweet art at POTUS
2017
Twitter Exhibition
STUDIO 47's Open Call for contributions to a Twitter exhibition on the occasion of POTUS' 100th day in office is now online.
Featuring works by: Christine Bachmann Triss Baranyai Conrad Bosshard Tim Bruening Benjamin Bubb Andrew J Burford Hannah Celsius Yun-hua Chen Amelia Clark Clementine BG Catalina Codreanu Caterina Detti Float010 Femke Habets Wolfgang Herbst Esben Holk Sonia de Jager Nikolaos Kachrimanis Amanda Karlsson Audrey Keenan Wednesday Kim KubistaBolve Kika Kyriakakou Fabian Landewee Ruth Legg Jana Leňová Stephano Loiacono Filippo Luini Céline Manz Achim Mohné Tony Morton Yotaro Niwa Lee Nutbean Bianca Pedrina Eric Peter Kaspar Ravel Btihal Remli Ksenia Safina Katerina Sidorova Navin Thakoer Esther de Vlam Ketch Wehr Paula Winkler
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Saturday
29/04/2017
Follow us on Twitter @STUDI047 while we are tweeting art at POTUS!
START: 08 PM CET
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21.01.2017
STUDIO 47 has launched an open call for artworks that will be tweeted at the 45th President of the United States
The open call offers an online platform for works and initiatives that counterweight his ongoing dark rhetorics. Artists from all backgrounds are invited to send works that can be presented on a website and shared by a tweet.
The artworks should carry a positive message and stand for social engagement and equality of any kind.
You can find more information here: Open Call
Please send your work or link to: hello@studio-47.org
If you think that it could interest artists that you know, please feel free to share!
Vogue
2017
Video
Comission for the group show "Chäs u Chole" at Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland.
"Chees and Coal. A photographer from Gondiswil, Johann Schär (1855–1938) 3 x 3 contemporary approaches. David Elsener, Nicolas Fernandez, Matthias Gabi, Nina Haab, Urs Mannhart, Céline Manz, Valerio Moser, Nele Stecher, Maria Ursprung.
Stately farms, beautiful cows, proud cheese makers, youngsters and cheerful women picking berries in the forest – Johann Schär's photographic documentation of a sedate rural life at the beginning of the 20th Century has no comparison in its density and quality in Switzerland. The documentation of the coal surface-mining in and around Gondiswil is unique and gives an impressive testimonial of this rare activity of mining in Switzerland.
For the first time, Kunsthaus Langenthal presents an overview of Johann Schärs's (1855–1938) work. Over 4000 glas-negatives, historic prints, album and postcards were secured, researched and digitalized by Fotobüro Bern.
The exhibition was curated by Markus Schürpf (Fotobüro Bern) and will be accompanied by an extensive catalogue that will be published on 18 March 2017.
Under the title «3x3» the Kunsthaus invited nine artists and writers to approach the photographs by Johann Schär from a contemporary perspective and react to them with a new work." Source: Website Kunsthaus Langenthal
purr
2017
online meditation
purr from Céline Manz on Vimeo.
(Switch to fullscreen mode for ultimate relaxation)
Your daily web based intermission that will help you restore inner peace after reading the news.
Contribution to STUDIO 47's Open Call
Waltzing
2016
Video
Based on some of Hitchcock's notorious scenes that subverted the 'Hays Code' and an artist's trials and tribulations to make the perfectly legal piece of appropriation art.
Sorry, copyright
2016
Gif
Details taken from screenshots of online museum catalogues which are not allowed to show reproductions of artworks from their own collections due to copyright limitations. Commissioned work for the 100th issue of the Dutch Art Magazine Tubelight. With interview.
Original Habitat
2016
HTML
Website Original habitat
Html, Google Street View, digital collage
Commissioned work for the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam on the occasion of Museumsnacht 2016, curated by Vincent van Velsen. 'Original habitat' takes the painting 'Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige)' from 1887 by Vincent van Gogh back to the environment that inspired Hiroshige’s original painting 'Plum Tree Teahouse at Kameido' (1857). Accompanied by the singing of the Japanese Bush Warbler bird and with help of Google Streetview 'Original habitat' invites the viewer to a virtual walk through the plum tree fields of the Kairaku-en Park in Mito, Japan.The Triangular Nature of Desire
2016
Text
Contribution to the Pictures Generation issue of Metropolis M Magazine. Based on Sherrie Levine’s Statement from 1982, including plagiarized quotes by Sherrie Levine, Sarah Charlesworth and Barbara Kruger. Samples of interviews and artist statements given between 1981 and 2016:
THE TRIANGULAR NATURE OF DESIRE
I worked for many years using images from popular culture, but never related to the word ‘appropriation’. I'm not interested in stealing images. I want to know what this strange world of images is that I live in. This is why I deconstruct images, take them apart, to find out what they're made of, how they function and how they picture the world for us. A symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. So I abstract objects that socially carry a strong emotional charge or symbolic significance. The arrangement of images is loaded in many different ways which allows multiple interpretations. The viewer completes the act of interpretation. It allows even contradictory interpretations. To me, a picture is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it in form, and then rearranging it. Casting my world back into the given world. It’s like a reformulation of language, a recreation of a new metaphor. I'm interested in as many layers of meaning as possible. The more you know, the more meaning and the more history can be brought to bear on it. Ergo the viewer is very, very important. He is the tablet on which all the quotations that make up an image are inscribed without any of them being lost, so to speak. I did a lot of commercial art for money and freelance illustration stuff when I was younger, so I do understand how magazines work. I use images drawn from that culture because I see in each piece an interface between my personal subjectivity and a given world. Being socialized within similar constructs of myth and desire, it is not surprising that most people are comforted by popular depictions. Sometimes these images emerge as ‘semblances of beauty;’ as confluences of desirous points. We have seen that pictures and words have become the rallying points for certain assumptions. There are assumptions of truth and falsity and the narratives of falsity are called fictions. In most design work, received images and words are arranged and aligned to produce assigned meanings. I am engaged in rearranging and realigning these dominant assignments. The idea is to broaden the discussion, not to narrow it. The idea of multiple images and mechanical reproduction fascinates me. When I first started to work as a commercial artist, I was really interested in how advertisers dealt with the idea of originality. If they wanted an image, they'd just take it. It was never an issue of morality; it was always an issue of utility. There was no sense that images belonged to someone; all images were in the public domain and as an artist I found that very liberating. I just imagined that they're mine. Over the years, I've come to the conclusion that copyright and so-called intellectual property is a euphemism for corporate control in so many ways. But don't get me wrong. I believe in copyright. I do. But it's been taken to such lengths. So much of our sense of art history is based on copies, fakes and forgeries. I think of originality as a trope. It's not that I don't think that the word ‘originality’ means anything or has no meaning. I just think it's gotten a very narrow meaning lately. What I think about in terms of my work is broadening the definitions of the word ‘original’. Sometimes when things are almost original they can be as disturbing. When it is close, but not the same, as the original, in my mind, there's a different kind of tension. The pictures I make are really ghosts of ghosts; their relationship to the original images is tertiary, that is, three or four times removed. I like to celebrate doubt and uncertainty. To provoke answers but don’t give them. To withhold absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. As far as the visual presentation goes, I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. A lot of people are like me: they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. Whatever power, whatever affect the images have, works on its own. A new work should have as much aura as its reference. The tension between the reference and the new work doesn't really exist unless the new work has an auratic presence of its own. It's all about what the work makes you think about. Somebody would say, ‘They’re really awful but come to think of it, they’re really beautiful.’ A picture's meaning lies not in its origin, but in its destination.
Studio 47
Ongoing
Venue
STUDIO 47 is a collective reflection on property and ownership in digital age initiated by Céline Manz. The studio’s activities are complemented on the website studio-47.org. For information on the program please contact us here
STUDIO 47 originates from a coalition with the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Foam and De Appel and is part of the 3Package Deal, a program supported by the AFK and Bureau Broedplaatsen Amsterdam.
Studio 47 Press
Ongoing
Publishing Platform
STUDIO 47 PRESS is the publishing platform of STUDIO 47. The publisher’s program solely consists of works that are the result of an artistic appropriative practise. The publications are printed in small editions and available as free PDFs on studio-47.org/press.
BANNERs - Online Catalogue
2015
Html
Catalogue accompanying the installation BANNERs - 8 artworks and the corporate logos of their respective owners.
Hungry for Love - The Exhibition
2014
Installation
Banana Beach
2014
Multimedia performance
Improvised dance piece superposed with a live sound performance created by two laptops which were connected via Skype, recorded at Banana Beach in Tel Aviv in May 2014.
Collaboration with Israeli dancer and choreographer Yuli Kovbasnian.
Banana Beach is a variation on the "Interference" piece we repeatedly performed in Tel Aviv earlier in 2014.
Beethovenstraat
2014
Digital collage
Commissioned work for the Dutch Art Magazine Metropolis M for the issue Nr 3 2014 - Summer of Love & Hate: Tribute to Ed van der Elsken.
After Ed van der Elsken's 'Beethovenstraat 1967'
Courtesy of Metropolis M
Hungry for love
2014
Publication
Enter here for free download.
In collaboration with Xavier Fernandez Fuentes .
"What, they seem to be asking, can one do after all has been displayed, when provocation becomes conformist? Sisley’s milk-fed version of porno chic may just lead the way out of the rut and into a new season. It’s got all the subversion, with ironic, wholesome, goodness to boot" - M.K.Hoffman on Sisley's 2001 campaign 'Hungry for love' shot by Mr. Richardson.
A1
2013
Digital Collages
"Terry's a really cool guy. There's something very beautiful, very raw about it and I'm glad that there is a photographer out there that does work like that." — Noot Seear, Model
44 ColorWave poster prints in DIN A1
Nominated for the Gerrit Rietveld Award in Fine Arts 2013
The Appropriator's User Guide
2013
Publication
Limited edition, 25 copies.
Thesis, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam. Practical tips when working with appropriated images, including an introduction on copyright, frequently asked questions about the notions of “copy” and “originality”, a chapter with case studies, a checklist and a list with further links.
Click here for the thesis essay "What do you know about art, you're not a lawyer".
Aude Debout, graphic designer, and Annelies Lesuis, lawyer specialized in copyright.
1 hour 28 minutes
2012
Video performance
1 hour 28 minutes 04 seconds of clapping, webcam performance.
Video and audio installation.
Film Stills
2012
Collage
Winning the game
when the rules have been changed
2012
Photo
The Invisible
2011
Photo
Photographs under hypnosis.
Rietveld Uncut is an annual happening at the Brakke Grond Art Center in Amsterdam. Each department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie is invited to contribute a project. The 2011's edition theme was the living object.
Taking the photographer's ambition to "photograph the beyond" by word, I asked a hypnotist to hypnotize me during the opening and convince me that I was able to photograph the invisible.
Rorschach Tableaux
2011
Photochemical drawings
The Rorschach Tableaux are Inspired of Roland Barth's Essay "Camera Lucida", in which he describes his unability to -literally - recognize himself on photographs. These 4/5 inch analog portraits were abstracted in the darkroom. Following the principle that photography is a highly subjective medium, the viewer is invited to create his own projection on the person portrayed.
Radiance
2011
Photogram
Extract from a series of photograms made with objects which belonged to my grandparents. Both of them had the habit of keeping whatever could be re-used again. When clearing their flat we found an extensive collection of neatly stored everyday objects; used wrapping paper, buttons, corks, elastics, nails, etc. I felt very attracted by these little objects which told my family's story over many years. Before throwing them away I used a part of this collection for an abstracted photographic review. By lightening the photographic paper indirectly with mirrors, glass and punctual lights, the photograms don't show their imprints but just their reflections.
The Vanity Collection
2010
Photo
Experiment.
Three photographs a day, all uploaded before midnight, dealing with the double meaning of the french word "vanité" (meaning both vanity and vanitas). As the capacity of free websites is limited, the project ended the day no further pages could be added.
Enter here.