Claudine Doury — Sasha
La Galerie Particulière
16 rue du Perche — 75003 Paris, France
From the 5th of January to the 25th of February 2012
With this new series, 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.
“Sasha, who was once a little girl, has grown up. Sasha is becoming a young woman and is seeking herself, in the mirror or in a territory that was originally her mother’s. A territory made of forests, magic and therefore images, the kind of territory from which we can invent tales and illusions. An aquatic world as well, for a rebirth whose purity will adorn white dresses for the fairytales parties of another time. We will walk on the waters, or have the illusion to do so at least, like when we dreamed, younger, to fly. We will get out of the water, with a friend, a double, wearing seaweeds on our heads, and becoming for the time of a swim, characters without identity in an untouched nature.(…) We will detain the fox but we will flee in a great white dust cloud and snippets of time. Then, one day, we will cut our blond braid and we’ll keep it, like the photograph keeps the image of the face in the mirror. (…) A mixture of mystery, magic, indescribable time and of a sometimes poisonous beauty, sets a world in suspension. We are sometimes tempted to lose ourselves in it, but we notice very quickly that it is impossible for us to enter. We have, probably, forgotten too fast that we lived that before and we haven’t been able to preserve it. A seriousness, a light sadness, invades us then. The leaves are yellowing a bit, on the verge of the pond. It is too late. Time has passed.”
Christian Caujolle
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