Regisseur Mathieu César is een samenwerking aangegaan met fashion fotograaf Ellen von Unwerth. Het resultaat is een online concept tentoonstelling getiteld “BlackOut.” De digitale galerij geeft bijzondere foto’s weer die de kracht van fashion voor altijd heeft vastgelegd.
BlackOut – representative of a temporary loss of memory – has been approached by Ellen von Unwerth in different photographic framings, all depicted in Black & White, showing that a woman with no memories is a woman with no future.
Carefully chosen by the photographer, the two models, Kasia Struss and Maaike Klaasen, endure a blackout in the middle of the Californian desert. A dramatic and post-apocalyptic adventure with nothing around but an abandoned gas station and blinding heat.
As a pioneer of a pictorial language that sublimates feminity, Ellen von Unwerth, pushes her boundaries once again by adding a layer of indisputable trauma to her heroines in the theme of memories, and a result of their loss.
Arriving at the exhibition is an experience itself: the visitor is immediately immersed in Ellen’s pictorial language exposed onto large format silver gelatin prints created and framed under museum glass by Memorieslab.
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