Inez van
Lamsweerde
Lamsweerde
Coming from fashion photography
Inez van Lamsweerde’s art treats especially the subject beauty. Exaggerating the aesthetics of the world of fashion
her photographs become unreal and smooth. Lamsweerde (1961, Amsterdam, lives in Amsterdam and New York)
creates artificial beings by manipulating her photographs digitally: the results are a strange mixture of lifeless dolls
and unpleasant physique.
“The Forest” are ambivalent and irritating images of “beauty”: men are lying in these close-ups in an undefined white space, smiling with closed eyes. Their fingers and mouths are those of women and thereby the men seem automatically more vulnerable and passive. The portraits have an ambivalent and irritating expression: the men shown are attractive and repulsing, caring and frightening at the same time.
“The Forest” are ambivalent and irritating images of “beauty”: men are lying in these close-ups in an undefined white space, smiling with closed eyes. Their fingers and mouths are those of women and thereby the men seem automatically more vulnerable and passive. The portraits have an ambivalent and irritating expression: the men shown are attractive and repulsing, caring and frightening at the same time.