This debut monograph from photographer maroesjka lavigne includes four of the artists series. In 2011, when photographer maroesjka lavigne was 21, she traveled to iceland on an impulse, and spent four months driving by herself. Island, not seeing is a flower, land of nothingness, and lost lands. Maroesjka lavigne was fascinated by the light in iceland brilliant, vivid colors during the. One of the least densely populated places on earth. One of your earlier works, island, has captured iceland in various angles. She selfpublished a book called island in 2012 that sold out. She selfpublished this work as a book 200 copies called island.
Maroesjka lavigne was fascinated by the light in iceland brilliant, vivid colors during the summertime when the sun rarely sets, contrasted with the dusky blue that hangs like a veil over the country in the dark monochromatic wintertime. Robert mann gallery publications someone, somewhere. Namibias landscape draws you in, through a vast brown plain of scorched earth, and steers you over the white surface of a salt pan to finally arrive in the gold tones of the sand dunes. View maroesjka lavigne s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. It used to be popular to be curvy because that meant you were a wealthy person. Defined by its rich variety of colorsyet in a forever changing, yet completely barren landscape. In northkorea this is still the case but on the other side of the border things have changed. Her work has been shown internationally at the foam talent exhibition in amsterdam, the robert mann gallery in new york, galerie hug in paris and museum saint guislain in gent, belgium, among others. This debut monograph from belgian photographer maroesjka lavigne 1989 includes four of the artists series. Somehow it seems to be linked to status and personal outing of wealth.
Maroesjka lavigne gup magazine international photography. Maroesjka lavigne photography you are more than beautiful. Each of these series spans several years in the making, in which the artist traveled extensively around the worldincluding time spent in argentina, iceland, japan, and namibia, among othersobserving landscapes and their inhabitants. Maroesjka lavigne photographs the worlds majestic lost lands. Maroesjka lavigne, courtesy robert mann gallery, new york heimaey by night, vestmannaeyjar, 2012 some of these scenes are familiarbathers taking. This debut monograph from awardwinning belgian photographer maroesjka lavigne born 1989 includes six of the artists series. For this project i spent four months in iceland, driving, mostly on my own, through the desolate snowcovered and blossoming landscapes of winter and spring, looking for a moment when colour, light and the subject merge into a moment that stands out.
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