Valerie Belin

Valerie Belin is a french artist- who lives and works in Paris. She has many different types of work - one that is very similar to one of the artist that i have looked at called Orlan who did a series of self portraits- with different religious themes to theme, Like Orlan Valerie has also explored - they aren't entirely the same but both remind me of each other.

Her work that has inspired me is the ones that she has done of the mannaquins- it has really caught my eye- i think that these mannaquins are really good- she took photographs of mannaquins which i think makes it a bit more exciting. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/03/bestshot.valerie.belin


"The original idea was to make photographs that evoked perfect virtual women, like Lara Croft. But I wanted to shoot a real object, not something from a computer. And then I thought of mannequins. A woman told me about the designer Adel Rootstein, whose realistic models are the Rolls-Royce of mannequins. So I went to a warehouse that had hundreds, all cast from real women. You might have the arms of one woman with the legs of another and the face of a third.
Most of the time, even after a while, people still don't know. During exhibitions, when I am there but nobody knows I'm the artist, I can hear people talking among themselves while looking at it, saying: "It is real." Or: "No, no, no. It's not real!" It's good - it means I've done what I set out to do."