Printed in 2009
40.64 x 50.8 cm
Exhibition Dates: September 17 – October 24, 2009
The gallery is please to present “Kiev”, a new series of photographic work by Éliane Excoffier, which addresses to provocative history of eroticism.
Excoffier’s work continues to be inspired by the culmination of two passions. Her intrigue in the representation of the female body and the investigation of photography’s historical processes and techniques are juxtaposed to create this most recent body of work. The subjects in Excoffier’s photographs are not identified as particular women, but fragments of the female body, as their conceals faces render them anonymous. Inspired by erotic imagery of the early 20th century, “Kiev” uses classical representations of sexual desire and eroticism. Excoffier’s sensual images are largely influenced by the work of photographers John Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873-1949), Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) and Carlo Molino (1905-1973) who all made portraits of the fetishised female form.
