CLÉMENTINE SCHNEIDERMANN
2016-03-28During her studies at the University of South Wales in Newport, she discovers the annual Elvis festival in the small town of Porthcawl and starts portraying the participants. She catches them “backstage” at the pub performing “Suspicious Minds”, or she is invited to their homes and captures them in their own private Elvis-sphere. From then on, the series progresses with similar “studies” of fans in Memphis, in and around Elvis’ own home, Graceland. And last year she went to Randers in Denmark, where the myth of the King takes shape as an exact copy of Graceland amidst motorway exits and shopping malls. Her visit engendered the portrait “Waitress”, focusing on a downspout, a sixties style waitress dress and a pair of flat shoes. At first glance a tired facade, not really maintaining any idea of grace or glamour, but in the anonymization it becomes a gentle and humorous portrait.
Opposite – Little girl, Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis Tennessee, 2015
Exhibition runs through till May 14th, 2016
Galleri Tom Christoffersen
Skindergade 5
1159 Copenhagen
Denmark
