Statuesque faces of women, shop-front mannequins that appear alive: in playing with the tension between image and reality, the clichés of Valérie Belin are there to provoke the viewer. Revolving around the themes of the body, identity and the artificial, Belin uses her technical talent to develop fascinating images imbued with a strange beauty.
The exhibition, held in Beijing at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and Shanghai at the SCôP, is a retrospective of the work of this world-renowned artist, from her very first projects to her latest experiments in digital and overlay techniques. The exhibition is jointly curated by Karen Smith, Art Director of Shanghai Center of Photography, and Chen Shen, Curator of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.