Eva-Claire #02, Austin, Texas. 2008.
“This is a photograph from my Austin, Texas series, a fashion series created for a magazine and an exhibition at the Maison Rouge in Paris. I don’t normally w
(...) ork with fashion, but I accepted the commission to challenge myself to make the clothes disappear for the benefit of the ‘character.’ I made this series with the idea of a sequence in the life of each of the girls I photographed, which mixed exterior and interior in the idea of the ‘everyday.’ Each girl I chose had an off-beat presence in the world. The accumulation of the series made me think of short novels, and the fashion magazine had a literary approach. The installation of the exhibition was linear, with a lot of small prints (all equal in size) that ran all over the space. The more realistic a context is, the more fictional it becomes.”
- Lise Sarfati
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