Edwynn Houk
Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of Valérie Belin’s most recent
series Super Models for the artist’s second exhibition at the gallery. Making
its debut earlier this year in Belin’s solo exhibition, Les images
intranquilles (Unquiet Images) at Centre Pompidou, this will mark the first
presentation of the series in the United States.
Composed of
six large-scale color photographs, Super Models presents images of mannequins
superimposed with abstract vector graphics found on the Internet, which Belin
then manipulates and digitally layers into each photographed image in order to
explore the artist’s ongoing investigations into the themes of beauty, artifice,
and the contemporary image. Eschewing the marketing names of the commercially
produced mannequins, Belin has titled her depictions Ananké, Aura, Electra,
Ishtar, Junita and Saffron– names that are all drawn from mythological
goddesses or television characters. Through this complex combination of
readymade, manipulated, and fictional resources, Belin creates a completely
illusory image that in turn causes us to question reality.
The topics
of illusion and artifice are themes Belin has explored throughout her career,
and she has photographed a wide range of subjects in this vein including live
models, masks, mannequin heads, body builders, and plastic fruit arrangements.
In Super Models, Belin once again works with the mannequin form; however, in
this new body of work the artist pushes her resources even further to greater
confound her images.
Venue name:
Edwynn Houk Gallery
Edwynn Houk
Gallery , Midtown East Tuesday November 24 2015 - Saturday December 19 2015
Address:
745 Fifth Ave New York
Cross
street: between 57th and 58th Sts
Opening
hours: Tue–Sat 11am–6pm
Transport:
Subway: F to 57th St; N, Q, R to Fifth Ave-59th St or Lexington Ave-59th St; 4,
5, 6 to 59th St
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