07.03.2014

Monologue

07.03.2014

Monologue

OK. I am going to tell you about myself 🙂

For me, Instagram represents a way to stay faithful to photography. I like to put my life on stage by using these images, and I appreciate both the fact that it is honest, and also the fact that it is very fanciful. When I look at the profiles of the people I am, I feel fine, and they show me wonderful glimpses of their daily existence, true images, sometimes reflective, and sometimes highly instinctive.

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When I take a picture with my iPhone, I know in advance what its purpose will be; it could be completely utilitarian and documentary, or it could serve as a reminder of what I am, or perhaps it could be a figure study. In that case, either I think about this image even before I take it, thereby projecting the composition, or I surprise myself with the lights, the objects, the people, or other things that compose the image in my place: so all I have to do is frame the shot and push the button.

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Instagram also lets me share my other productions with a community of users. Since I am a fine arts student in Lyon, France, images are very important for me. Showing my work is extremely important for me. Making an image out of my images is something rather complex. How can you show objects or images in 2D, how can you show a point of view, which will be the best, how are people going to perceive this image under a unique point of view, the unique window I will open for them onto my work?

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The creation of forms, objects, and images is what stirs the greatest passion in me. I often wake up with a large amount of images that emerge from my dreams or are generated by my thoughts; but these are also images of daily life, life’s little rituals and banal actions that surround us. So many are so routine as to escape our notice, but they really inspire me tremendously. It is there in all these parallel little worlds that I like to explore and let my imagination take off. I see visual arts as an experiment in daily reality, an excuse to see the world that surrounds us in a simpler, more beautiful, and stranger, more troubling, or lighter way, more this way or more that way: I just love to turn daily life into fiction, to transcend reality, to create mystery and intrigue out of those ordinary things that so often escape our notice.

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And that’s why for me instagram is an excellent medium. It lets me share with an immense multitude of people a life that may be my own, or maybe I am orchestrating through this platform the life of an imaginary character: Clotilde Boisrenard. I am not trying to say that what I publish is false, fictional, or imaginary. It isn’t decorative or mere costume (even if these are things I would like very much). I am simply trying to explain that my images are just completely subjective points of view on the things I encounter in my life, and which I then manipulate, turn over, contour to reinvent an image. This roundabout explanation may seem pretentious or obscure, but in writing, I am able to identify the meaning of my work. It is truly difficult to create images, to give them a direction, a valid explanation, to truly own them, so that others will take them seriously and take you seriously. Whatever the case, there is one thing I am sure of: I want to tell stories, lots of stories, about the things that touch all of us, the experiences that we all encounter.

Lucie Malbéqui
Student at the Fine Arts Institute in Lyon

http://epidemiologie.tumblr.com/ (site under construction)
http://ink361.com/clotildeboisrenard
http://instagram.com/clotildeboisrenard
https://www.facebook.com/luciemalbequi

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