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Hellen Van Meene: Portraits.
Photographs by Hellen Van Meene. Text by Kate Buh.
Aperture,
New York,
2004.
96 pp.,
55 four color illustrations,
8¼x8¾".
Natural light, lush textures, and carefully considered compositions provide the foundation for Van Meene's intimate portraits of young girls who act in her staged photographs. Van Meene's subjects, mostly girls, are beautifully corpulent; their changing bodies and pubescent complexions—with blemishes and bruises—provide a visceral drama in themselves. And Van Meene's delightfully fetishistic eye for clothing—often perfectly ill fitting on the model—adds a subtle tension to the scene. She often portrays her subjects entwined and encumbered with the surrounding elements: a young girl lies still between the couch cushions; another's hair is weaved through a fence and another appears with her tracksuit wound tightly around her chest and a tree behind her. All maintain a similar introspective gaze as if they are equally entwined in their own private lives. Throughout, Van Meene masterfully creates a resounding dissonance between the staged nature of the portraits and the realism with which her subjects are depicted.
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