Juul Kraijer
© Juul Kraijer
Prologue (excerpt)
2018
single channel video,
14:17 min. loop, no sound
Chimaera
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This series resulted from several sessions I did between 2015 and now with two very talented young French artistes: a contortioniste and a butoh-dancer. Their bodies are amazing instruments. The faces and femininity are deliberately not shown in the photographs, only limbs, back, hair, throat. I am fascinated by the transformative potential of these bodies. At times they seem hardly human, are more reminiscent of insects, shells or fossils. As much of a mirage as a chimaera!
The photographs are untitled.