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Vivianne Sassen: ANALEMMA - FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY 1992 - 2012 at The Photographers' Gallery

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Time 10:00
Date 31/10/14
Price Free

The first London presentation of works by Dutch-born photographer Viviane Sassen, one of the most exciting and creative figures working across contemporary art and photography today.  

Her highly distinctive style reflects an innovative and dynamic approach to the medium, producing images that foreground an expressive use of colour and tone, unusual viewpoints and a sculptural concern with form and shape that often lends a surreal quality to her compositions.   

This exhibition focuses on her fashion work and features around 350 images that subvert the limits and conventions of this genre.   Sassen has conceived an immersive installation for The Photographers’ Gallery, presenting her images as a series of dynamic looped projections which sweep over and across the gallery walls and floor.  Mirrors and specially defined projection areas dissect the photographed bodies and disturb the viewers’ sense of gravity and viewing expectations.

Viviane Sassen studied Fashion Design and Photography at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht, and at Ateliers Arnhem in the Netherlands. She has worked on award-winning campaigns for Stella McCartney, Adidas, Miu Miu, and Missoni, and for magazines such as, i-D, Purple, AnOther Magazine, Dazed & Confused, and POP. She has been awarded the Prix de Rome (2007), the ICP Infinity Award for Applied and Fashion Photography (2011) and in 2013 exhibited at the Venice Biennale.

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