The Tamesis
What does girlhood indicate to you directly, politically, and creatively?
VD: Girlhood is a time of testing, an extremely extreme duration of individual and social identification building. It unites stamina and vigor, along with susceptability. By browsing the archives, while reviewing the jobs of renowned chroniclers such as Veronique Blanchard, Beatrice Koeppel or Françoise Tetard, we recognize that there is a social and political continuum that takes a look at girlhood via the special lens of sexuality, a type that culture wants to subdue.
AG: Teenage years is a time of shift, discovery, and often discomfort. Via the event’s photos and message, I demand the measurements of the oblique body, on the women body as a body of dissent and a body extracted from the standard. Personalities that assert that the women body is disobedient.
Your pictures really feel put on hold in time– both historic and modern.
AG: Time out is a repeating style in my job. For me, it stimulates an unrealized, non-lethal duration in between descent and climb, a time when anything was feasible. The put on hold women body stands for a body of resistance that protects against dropping and stands once more.
Lucas Olivet
