Lamp Girls

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Marianne Maric - creator of these photographs of girls dressed as lamps - exhibited a video performance of the ‘lamp girls’ as part of an exhibition called Under my Skin at Galerie Magda Danysz in Paris earlier this year.

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A statement from Maric:

I started photography in 2001, and Ia€™ve been constantly taking pictures of my girl friends and mates. My work shifted gradually from shooting them in sophisticated outdoor settings toward a more tridimensional, sculptural approach to the female body.

First, I used photography as a way to freeze time ; my friends were losing their identities, with their faces hidden most of the time. They were looking like dislocated dolls, broken toys or sad robots. My mind has now become a sanctuary where these objectified bodies give some of their life back. I imagine them moving slightly, in a sweet, smooth and shy movement. I need to be in full control, to master those objects I have created. Whereas I initially wanted to freeze these living girls, I am now trying to bring to life my motionless creatures again, even to the point where they could possibly free themselves of my bonds.

I see the world as an endless setting Ia€™m trying to comprehend. I see the human body the same way ; William Klein perceived it as a wonderful and fascinating architecture worthy of being photographed. I used to be afraid of puting life into my pictures and I was destroying them with the tip of my finger. Today though, when I transform a woman into a thing, it always serves the same purpose: allowing me to shape her/it as the subject/object I want her/it to be.

These a€oelamp-girlsa€A were first conceived as an illustration of the woman as a thing conveyed by the a€oeentertainment world,a€A but gradually ascending to a state of consciousness. These photographs were part of a broader vision: once the costume was finished, the a€oelivinga€A model put it on and took place on a white rotating base into a dark room. The public had the choice to turn on or off the lamp, the dress, the girl, the room. I wanted to a€oeimmortalizea€A this moment when a woman become a simple household appliance. That is how these photographs were born.

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VIDEO SHOWa€A12 JANV - 9 FEV 2008
HENDRICK DUSOLLIER, YANN GONZALEZ, MARIANNE MARIC, DUDAS MIKLOS, ELODIE PONG, STEFAN RINGELSCHWANDTNER, CHLOA‰ TALLOT, CORINE STUEBI
Curator: Carine Le Malet

Galerie Magda Danysz
78,rue Amelot,
Paris 11 - France

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Posted: July 21st, 2008
at 8:18am by orangemenace


Categories: myninjaplease,art,contemporary,fo' real?

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  1. Reminds me of Party Dress
    http://www.dk22.com/dress.html

    jason

    19 Oct 09 at 12:04 am

     


 

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