Staged bodies

Staged bodies is devoted to the many ways in which the body has been staged in artistic photography since 1970. The opening up of postmodern culture to the realms of fiction, hybridization and simulacrum has caused many upheavals in the treatment of the body. The latter is no longer seen as a closed and stable reality, but becomes a fluctuating projection surface making it possible to renegotiate fundamental questions related to representation, identity, and the relationship between the sexes. From now on, the body is no longer an unchangeable biological fact, but a social construction, understandable only through the prism of its multiple staging in particular historical and cultural contexts. To this passage from a natural and permanent body towards an ideologically determined and remodelable body, corresponds, in terms of photography, the abandonment of a documentary approach in favor of a staged photography, which, instead of claiming to reproduce reality, dramatizes and fictionalizes it. Exhibition: Musée L, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium (15.10.2020 - 24.01.2021). Staged bodies est consacré aux nombreuses façons dont le corps est mis en scène dans la photographie artistique depuis