The Red Thread (Le Fil Rouge) revisits Bluebeard, or La Barbe Bleue, a French fairytale by Charles Perrault published in 1697. It is the terrifying story of a young maiden who is persuaded into marriage by a violent nobleman with a blue beard, hence the title. It is not until Bluebeard leaves on a trip that the maiden discovers his terrible secret in the cellar of his chateau.
The series consists of 46 photographs, 6 obituaries, and one film. Since 2013, The Red Thread is a part of Fotografiska's permanent collection of contemporary photography. Sarah Moon is one of the greatest photographers of our time. Her unique and diffuse imagery creates a mystical world, that lingers in the moment between dreaming and being awake.
Sarah Moon (b. 1941) is a French photographer. Beginning as a model in the 1960s, she practiced photography as an autodidact before working on her first fashion campaigns, where especially the images she created for the Cacharel brand rapidly drew international attention. In the middle of the 1980s, Moon deepened the focus in her personal approach, as well as her research on story-making and the fictional space of photography.
Sarah Moon's work shapes a visual world which is instantly recognized as hers- unfolding like in a story, the characters move through a time which has been lifted beyond what is ordinary. The sensation of being inside a plot is amplified by the literary and cinematographic references in her work. Epochs, just as surfaces, shadows and memories are blurred, and what is matte and what is shimmer meld together in a light of its own.
The exhibition was loaned from Fotografiska Museum Stockholm.
The exhibition was organized in cooperation with REZO Agency.
Vernissage:
12.09.2024, 19:30
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