Viviane Sassen

“Using graphic shadows and vivid colours, fabricates image full of symbols and ambiguity. She hides faces in deep shadow or turns them away which allows the viewer to identify with the subject and visualise their own narrative”

-IGNANT

Dutch photographer Vivian Sassen is one of the rare artist who moves between the two worlds of fashion and art. Her fashion photography is marked by strength and surrealism. “Hidden” is the style of V’s works, she hide the model behind branches, grass, covers, furniture and use strong colour contrast between light and shade. She let them stand in the shadow, standing in high light background or turned back, she also use body to block body to make an overlapping image. The body without face pose and dance in the overlapping space. This is all because her childhood memories in Africa. V has extensive black people around her. She repeated mentioned that she willing to own the black skin, she feels white looks like always naked, and disturbing.

Untitled for Carven, 2012

Obscured faces extraordinary colour

“Tends to treat the body as a sculptural element a malleable shape that combined with blocks of shadow and bright colour in arrangements that sometimes read like cut paper collages, bold and abstract but full of vibrant life.”

-Time