Body Language

Taking film stills and altering, adapting, and skewing them through play, chance and error, Sasaki presents us with a wildly surreal image. Its also intricately, intimately beautiful.

A stunning beauty photograph by award-winning Bronwyn Kidd. Detail and form are shown in this brilliant portrait creating light and intrigue for the viewer.

This intriguing portrait of an old man, spliced up, draws from the aesthetics of Cubism. Seeing the portrait from multiple perspectives we get a holistic insight into not just the identity of the sitter but more importantly his character.

“I had seen a copy of the Mae West Lips sofa that Dali was commissioned to produce by Edward James” John Thorton recounts, “The image depicts my love of my then girlfriend Alex, who was to become my wife, however, it tells its own story with the red letter by a heart and a picture frame with a ripped photograph.”

Surreal, ethereal and oddly beautiful, these photographs are formed out of scraps of negatives collaged together.

In many ways recalling the work of Georgia O’Keefe, Nicolson embraces the erotic potential of subtly framed semi-abstract images. By cleverly abstracting his images, they resemble in part his exploration in floral photography.

First published in 1964, I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever is Warhol’s first depiction of Marilyn Monroe. Unlike later portrayals of the classic Hollywood star’s likeness set against vibrant colours, here Warhol has detailed a focused image of Monroe’s most seductive feature, set against a stark white backdrop.

‘Handcuffed’ is part of a sequence of works that use sharks jaws as handcuffs. In the words of Lieberman, ‘it symbolises mankind being handcuffed to the ocean, and we are both the jailers, and prisoners of the ocean.’

Bronwyn Kidd’s fashion and portrait photography is characterised by an unyielding dedication to elegance, precision and timelessness.