The world of Turkish photographer Nazif Topçuoglu is a prohibited place where well-groomed high school girls in miniskirts perform adult fantasies with unusual props such as books, compass and microscopes.
Sheltered in the cushioned backrooms, boudoirs and libraries of nineteenth century-like mansions, they inspect one another, punish each other or just enjoy a moment of intimacy. Cast as domineering or submissive, sadist or masochistic, they however cannot pain each other -for, we get the intuition that they soon will swap roles.
In Topçuoglu's world, Foucault's power-knowledge nexus has turned into harmless games. Whether his women of doubtful youth conquer or surrender, enact rituals of initiations into forbidden pleasures, they do so for our eyes, only.
Sometimes referencing famous compositions by Great Masters of the history of art -preferably baroque paintings by, for instance, Caravaggio- Topçuoglu does not only elevate these seemingly soft-erotic depictions to the status of key moments in the existence of women, but elaborates a discourse on the stereotypes of femaleness in canonical representations in the Occidental and Middle Easter arts and literature.
Alluring at first sight and interesting in the long term, these works have both the power to bewitch and criticize. Welcome to a delightful theatre, that of innocence -lost and recovered.
Une Ford Pick-up, une Pan/Shovel 66, une Custom 2004 (Jeffrey), une Triumph 69 (Vince), une El Camino 64, une Bel Air 65 (peinte par Vince), une Duo Glide 62, une Comet (qui appartenait à Steve Mc Queen), une Special Construction 2000 (toutes, OM), une Harley 1969, une Dyna 2003 (Wes),une Pan 59, une Pan 62, une Pan 65 (John Copeland), une Sportster 68 (Dr...
Le conte photographique l’Emouvantail, se veut être « l’Echo » d’une histoire d’amour entre un épouvantail etune jeune femme, la Dame de l’O qui pourrait être celle de chacun d’entre nous… Mais pas seulement…
Créée par le Musée de l’Elysée à Lausanne, l’exposition Hans Steiner Chronique de la vie moderne a été présentée à la Fotostiftung de Winterthour, à la Médiathèque Valais-Martigny et au Museo Villa dei Cedri de Bellinzona.
Mouna Saboni est d'origine bretonne, de mère française et de père marocain. Elle a 23 ans et termine sa troisième année à l’ENSP d’Arles. Je voudrais voir la mer est présentée dans le cadre du festival des Boutographies, Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier dédiées aux jeunes photographes. La série sél...
Awol Erizku's photographs reference classical art works to include models of color in order to emphasize, and draw attention to the lack of racial diversity represented in art history.
Erizku creates images such as, Girl with a Bamboo Earring, 2009 in which he repl...
Originally conceived for and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the upcoming exhibition at the Helmut Newton Foundation is dedicated to Newton’s first three legendary publications. The motifs published in the books have been transformed into exhibition prints. During Newton’s lifetime, these photographs bordering between fashion and nude ph...
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