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DominiqueBrebion
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What role does photography play in your approach?
ShirleyRufin
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In my approach to the plastic arts, the photographic image serves
as a bridge to manipulate the real. It becomes a single perception that delivers
meaning starting from an image with multiple meanings. It unconsciously
refers to ourselves and allows us to imagine another visual language. This
stems from a need to sublimate, based on stereotyped flaws, the body that
appears abnormal to us yet is all the same perceived and experienced as
something sacred, which sees itself defiled as soon as it is unveiled. If we go
on the assumption that society fashions the body, a body without any social
context is therefore anonymous: it becomes a pure utopia. Thus my artistic
work shows the process whereby a crisis in the perception of the body is
triggered by chemical action that alters, breaks up, decomposes and destroys
the image, leading to a loss of the subject.
DB
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How do you construct your images?
SR
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I begin my study with a tool that offers an exact, referential reflection
and the reproducibility of the work so that ultimately it can be turned into
a monotype. I create
photographic utopias
, bodies forged out of the loss of
light. Through this process, the body becomes the imprint of the photographic
instant. It is transfigured by the manipulation of its image and becomes a
metaphor that I call a
vain chimera
. I erode the image of this body by taking
away its surface, as if to mark and authenticate it in its singularity, which
enables it to pass from shadow into the light.