TOUT VA DISPARAITRE
2009-09-28Hellen van Meene’s intimate portraits of the awkward drama of adolescence take the conflicted emotions of her teenage subjects and infuse them with a quiet melancholy. She has staged her models in moody rooms of rich color, often using natural light from a nearby window, and dressed them in 19th century draped gowns of silk and lace. The resulting pictures feel like small angst-filled performances, or odd dress up games, where the girls adopt blank stares and mannequin-like poses that only partially conceal their inner lives.
Opposite – untitled #319, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008
This exhibition runs until the 31st of October, 2009
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
