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Featured photographer
Marjolaine Ryley
Images from the series Résidence Astral were all taken in Marjolaine’s grandmother’s apartment, an
archetypal bourgeois dwelling in Brussels and an important site of memory
for the artist.
"Being in the apartment is like being saved.
You leave the real world behind and step into a landscape in miniature.
Within this embrace you receive nourishment, through food and warmth you
shrink in size and become small again. As the hours and days drift by
you begin to feel nauseous, you develop aches and pains of the body and
soul. You begin to suffocate, to long for fresh air and real life. Longing
to be somewhere else, anywhere else overcomes you. Slowly as the grip
tightens you must bid for escape, run for your life.
Once ejected from the killer apartment and all its comforts and promises you feel a surge of panic. The harsh light of responsibility shines on you again. The pain of misunderstanding and malnourishment return afresh. You experience elation briefly as you exhume your feelings, but the exhaustion returns. Your life is now your own again, and as the train leaves carrying with it the lingering scents of Brussels, once again life is full of possibilities. Yet how quickly you begin to miss and long for the apartment and all its comforts."
Related Link: www.marjolaineryley.co.uk | Pavilion Special Edition Prints
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| Résidence Astral #7, 2005 |
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