Sasha
Claudine Doury has followed for three years the transition from childhood to adulthood of her daughter, Sasha. She questions the construction of personality through secret games, intimate rituals and the fears and dreams of adolescence.
“For a long time, I have been interested in girl teenagers’ rites of passage, sacred for the time of a party: Sweet sixteen in USA, Quinceanera in Cuba and new “proms” in Russia…During this time, my daughter was slowly leaving childhood. It then clearly appeared to me that I should no longer work on those socially organized rites of passage, but on the hidden face of this transition state, on its secret games, its interiority and its silences. A photographic tale revealed itself: the end of my daughter Sasha’s childhood, in which mine is hinted. In this tale, boredom, terror and enchantment are playing and replaying. “Adolescence is a kingdom of fallen and still falling angels, but it is yet a kingdom”, said James Agee. Sasha is my own vision from the threshold of this kingdom” – Claudine Doury
DETAILS
17 colour prints, framed
Sasha, La Galerie Particulière, Paris, 2012
Sasha, La Galerie Particulière, Paris, 2012
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