VEILED/UNVEILED
The photographic approach of Ginette Lafon also disqualifies this diserotisized flesh of the pornography, its brutality which takes the female body into a strategy of prostitution. Her photography tells about the inimitable in the female, which escapes from the sight of the censors and the advertising executives. She explores the interiority of the female subject, its self-awareness like vulnerable body, injured. By the play of superposition of the images transferred on fabric and the effects of transparency, the lower part contaminates the top, the interior the outside, until scrambling the smooth visibility of appearances, to mackle the glossy legibility of the image. Here, the act to unveil, reveal, show, and that to veil, hide, protect are engaged in a to and fro, a process of reciprocal contamination. The image also functions at the same time as support for projection and surface of back projection. She does not represent the body as much as she somatizes it. The fabric clarifies this cutaneous dimension of the image, that the artist works a zone of exchange. Increased photography serves as an exploration of intimacy, a reflexion on the identity, a disjunction between being and appearing, the relation between psyche and soma and engages an aesthetics of the between, of the interstice, which gets hold of the research of a third space and a median visibility, keeping the image and the figure of human in subtle balance between opacity and the transparency, the obvious and the hidden, the describable and the indescribable.