VALÉRIE BELIN – CHINA GIRLS
2018-12-17In the line of Super Models (2015), All Star (2016), and Painted Ladies (2017), this new series of photographs, realized in 2018, depicts young women posing “like actresses incarnating imaginary characters.” The title is directly borrowed from the vocabulary of the motion picture industry from the 1950s. Originally, a “China Girl” designated an anonymous actress who held the cameraman’s grayscale, used to calibrate the opening image in the reel leader, when processing the film. By extension, “China Girl” became the generic term to identify this first image.
Opposite – Chinese Coral Red (China Girls), 2018
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2018
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
8 rue Charles Decoster
1050 Brussels
Belgium
