Liliane Vertessen - A Love Supreme - Le Musée de la Photographie 2018

A rare artist on the art scene, Liliane Vertessen has developed an unclassifiable body of work in which, far from the narcissistic selfie, she uses her body as a material, like a dancer, offering the troubling imprint of a modern icon.
At the end of the 1970s, using modest cameras, she began photographing herself in provocative outfits that she bought in sexy lingerie shops before transforming them. She embraced the precariousness of her prints, evoking concert posters and underground magazine covers, which she framed in satin, velvet, lace and feathers, grafting neon lights with simple words bursting like slogans over her bare body.
For her, photography is a stage in a longer process: the simplicity of the set-up gives a glimpse of the pleasure of this meeting in front of the lens, a ritual in which the viewer is as much confronted with the model's body as with her own gaze, alternately spectator or voyeur.

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