Biography

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Charlotte David, a French Canadian student at l'Atelier de Sèvres and will begin her a bachelors at Les Gobelins next year. The first time that she felt the need to create images was when she lived in London between the ages of 9 and 12. She discovered a city completely different to Poissy, where she had lived. Since at that moment she did not understand the language ans is dislexic, photography became a natural way for her to express herself without limitations. Photography allows her to see the world as if everything has the potential to be beautiful. 

The project

"I wore a corset for 3 years, day and night, from the age of 13 to 16.

A few months ago, I asked myself about this experience and my own life: What was the impact of having my body “constrained”, “stuck” for so many days, on my perception of it, the image I have of it, the way I represent it? What was the impact of this corset on my adolescence, at a time of rapid change and appropriation of my body image, when appearance is a subject in its own right?

Even though this object changed my life and enabled me to stand up straight, my body became a “non-subject”. I was ashamed of it, I had to hide it.

I wanted to translate this into images and open it up to wider interpretation. I wanted my series to speak to others, to open up to other sensations: how do norms, standards, alter our vision of our hindered body, make us hate our temple? We feel constrained, locked in, mistreated.

In my photo series, by creating unconventional and impractical orthoses, I've found a way to represent this suffering. The body is hindered, its mobility restricted by absurd objects. This strong physical constraint induced by orthoses evokes the insecurities we may feel about our bodies.                                                                                            I wanted the pieces of wood, metal, fabric... to be perceived as a metaphor for the physical or mental constraints on our bodies.

I wanted to create sculptural bodies, as if frozen in marble. I drew inspiration from the representations of Saint Sebastian for the first dytic on the second page: the bodies are broken, assembled, bent, dueling with themselves.

I was also inspired by medical imagery from the early 20th century, referring to the gueules cassées after the First World War. I didn't want the background of the sheet to be smooth, for imperfections to be visible. Contrasts were also important, so that the light would highlight certain parts of the images and contrast others. 

Choosing a black and white format allowed me to accentuate distance and coldness, to represent a part of my life that lacked color."

From the project 'Tiens-toi droite' by Charlotte David

From the project 'Tiens-toi droite' by Charlotte David

Biography

website: www.benjaminfriedle.de

Benjamin Friedle (b. 1999, Stuttgart) is a German visual artist who has been studying at  Photography at Hochschule Bielefeld since 2021.

The project

8.784 Photos (136x210cm, digital print on MDF, framed) consists of the same number of photographs of the sky, every 10 minutes, over 61 days, combined into one image that unites the two time axes of minutes and days. In contrast, there are 8.784 Colors (70x108cm, digital print on MDF, framed), sorted by color values, each generated from the previous 8,784 photos. The work was created under the supervision of Prof. Adrian Sauer.

Clouds are generally an interesting photographic subject for me, as they are difficult to depict for technical reasons and do not exactly represent what they claim to be (water). The work illustrates the principle of pixels strung together, which give us a coherent color gradient.

Biography

website: www.benjaminfriedle.de

Benjamin Friedle (b. 1999, Stuttgart) is a German visual artist who has been studying at  Photography at Hochschule Bielefeld since 2021.

The project

8.784 Photos (136x210cm, digital print on MDF, framed) consists of the same number of photographs of the sky, every 10 minutes, over 61 days, combined into one image that unites the two time axes of minutes and days. In contrast, there are 8.784 Colors (70x108cm, digital print on MDF, framed), sorted by color values, each generated from the previous 8,784 photos. The work was created under the supervision of Prof. Adrian Sauer.

Clouds are generally an interesting photographic subject for me, as they are difficult to depict for technical reasons and do not exactly represent what they claim to be (water). The work illustrates the principle of pixels strung together, which give us a coherent color gradient.