Models or dolls, what's the difference?

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An article in this week’s Weekend Knack drew my attention to a running exhibition at the MoMu. The fashion museum regularly exhibits photography collections that you can take a look at for free. Until February 3 the MoMu hallway is the decor for Thomas Zanon-Larcher’s ‘Jerwood: Free and Framed’. For this compilation, the photographer moved from Paris to Milan and New York to shoot pictures of models sitting around and waiting backstage. The result is a variety of very natural, spontaneous images of the people we’re used to see in the most glamorous poses. It’s refreshing, to say the least.

Next to this series of photographs, the exposition also holds a collection of photos that were choreographed by director Jules Wright. It is the modern version of Felicity Gilbert’s take on a modern story, which is to be conceived as the sequel to Hendrik Ibsen’s play The Dollhouse. The theme of both parts of the exhibition is dolls, and the very vague distinction between what is real, and what is fake.

I’m planning on dropping by as soon as I can, because this sounds like exactly the kind of encounter between art and fashion that is both captivating and interesting.

xx Steph

‘Jerwood: Free and Framed’
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