Paris Photo 2015

DUO SHOW - VIVIANE SASSEN, ZANELE MUHOLI
Zanele Muholi has been portraying members of the LGBTI community in South Africa and abroad since 2004, following their vicissitudes in joyful and painful events that often seem to go hand in hand. Viviane Sassen’s photographs evoke a sense of displacement and ambiguity. In her carefully staged scenes nothing is what is seems: references and conventions are subverted by means of shadows and materials. She is well-known for her performative ‘portraits’ in which the sitters’ features are obscured by shadow, intertwined limbs echoing intricate sculptures. As it happens with memories or thoughts, her images form a fluid stream of associations and connections. New work will be exhibited alongside older, iconic images to offer an overview of the artists’ aesthetic trajectories over the past decade.