Sandy Skoglund — Sweet Cherry
Mises en scène
Inception Gallery is making a proposal on staging in contemporary photography by presenting the works of American artist Sandy Skoglund and Cerise Doucède, young talent, winner of the Royal Monceau competition for photography in 2012.
Far from the concepts of the middle of the 20th century on "the decisive moment" by Henri Cartier-Bresson, or the photojournalism of Brassaï or even Walker Evans, photography becomes a studied object: from the staging of sets, characters, from gesture to shooting. Staging close to the golden age of Dutch painting or more generally to Flemish genre painting of the 17th century: a dramatization of characters to which no specific identity can be attached, these are neither portraits nor depictions of historical figures. Representations of single characters, everyday subjects, idealized (mannered) postures.
These three artists also have in common the mixture of genres: sculpture, model, painting, sewing, live model. All frozen in a photograph from a unique point of view that will remain as the trace of a plastic work that could be described as an installation. Photography critics often use the expression: “Photographic paintings” for qualified ones. We therefore think of Georges Rousse or Land Art with Christo, for example, whose photography is the memory of an installation and a staging whose realization is done in space and the design in the plan.
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