Queen Ann. P.S. Belly Cut Off
Mariken Wessels
Alauda Publications
Dutch and English
Softcover
80 pages
240 x 330 mm
2010
ISBN 9789081531412
Marieken Wessels second photo novel Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off is based on photographs sourced from an existing person; a middle aged woman wringing with her self-image in an endless stream of manipulated photographs of herself, making them into a true cabinet of curiosities.
(Source: https://www.ideabooks.nl/9789081531412-mariken-wessels-queen-ann)
About the Artist
Visual artist Mariken Wessels (b. Vlaardingen, 1963) produces works that occupy a grey zone somewhere between fact and fiction. For her ‘documentary fiction’, she uses her own photographs together with found images, playing around with their meanings until a new narrative emerges. Her Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor series won last year’s prestigious Author Book Award at the Rencontres de la Photographie festival in Arles (France).
Recurrent themes explored in Mariken Wessels’ work are the self-image in amateur photography, broken or difficult relationships, and the dividing line between the public and the private. Wessels often suggests that voyeurism is at play. In this respect, the photographs she exhibits are reminiscent of the work of Gerard Fieret and Miroslav Tichý (although her work is the result of a wholly different process).
marikenwessels.com
(Source: https://www.fotomuseumdenhaag.nl/en/exhibitions/mariken-wessels)
About the Publisher
Alauda Publications is an Amsterdam-based internationally operating publishing house, founded in 2009, concentrating in the field of contemporary art, culture and theory.
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(Source: https://alaudapublications.nl/about/)
