"Entre Quatre Murs" Berlin
(Between four walls, Berlin)
Nathalie Daoust
June 2 - June 30, 2007
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The series of three-dimensional portraits, “Entre Quatre Murs”, opens 30 windows on various imaginary universes illustrating every day life.
Nathalie Daoust has been photographing human behaviors and its various surroundings ever since her very first experiments in photography. Mostly focusing on the human desire of escaping and living in a fantasy world, she creates atmospheres to explore the border between reality and fantasy. In her latest project, “Entre Quatre Murs”, she has photographed each person in their home, in their everyday environment, capturing moments of intimacy. Nathalie makes use of the contrast between Berlin’s pre-World War II interiors and the contemporary women creating an odd time-shift, providing a melancholic feeling of a lost world.
For this theme she has developed a technique of printing various elements of an image on several separate layers of orthochromatic film. By superimposing and reassembling pieces of the image, as well as leaving an ethereal space between each layer, the image eventually becomes three-dimensional and complete again. This re-compositing of the image in space works like a transparent puzzle, revealing the unknown, and perhaps even an imaginary aspect of the individual.
Doll House
