Inez & Vinoodh: Displaced Beauty
Partners in life and work for twenty-five years, Inez & Vinoodh were among the first photographers to harness the full potential of digital manipulation in portraying the human condition.
They combine the beautiful with the bizarre, the elegant with the extreme and the classical with camp. The result is an archive of works that reference the exquisite corpse technique that was largely adopted by surrealists and create an altered view of human beauty, from the classical to the utterly extreme.
Since beginning to work together in the late 1980s, the pair have created images for many leading international brands in luxury and fashion, with their work also spanning advertising and personal photography series.
A series of portraits taken over the last ten year,s juxtapose the famous with the lesser or little known, including a nude series of topical fashion models. Another series embraces a passion for flowers and the iconographically charged still-life paintings of their Dutch heritage, treating the flower as a subject. With their preference for disturbance and displacement, Inez & Vinoodh work to unsettle the real and make the familiar ever strange.
A selection of Inez & Vinoodh’s photographs are on display at Gagosian Athens Gallery until Wednesday 18 December 2013.
