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Lot Essay
Beginning with her ground-breaking work La Vie Nouvelle in 2003, French photographer Lise Sarfati has realized six important series of photographs by visiting and working in the United States. Her most recent body of work, SHE, was created in the Bay Area (San Francisco). The series is, like much of Sarfati's other work, research into women's identities and the construction of feminine types. The artist is highly attuned to the ways in which her female subjects are attempting to construct their identities and how they choose to reveal their characters to those around them.
SHE is a highly personal body of work, focused on the interconnections between four females of a single family as they experience major transitions in their respective lives. When Sarfati met Sasha and Sloane, the two young sisters of the series, they were coping with a radical cultural and psychological transition, having recently moved to their mother Christine's Oakland loft from their grandparent's highly conventional suburban home in Phoenix. Christine subsequently moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of a singing career.
Lise Sarfati's work can be found in the permanent collections of a number of important institutions including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
She has been the recipient of several distinguished awards, including both the Prix Niepce, Paris, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, New York.
Sarfati's photographs will be the subject of a major retrospective at the Bibliothèque Nationale in 2014.
Gift of the artist.
SHE is a highly personal body of work, focused on the interconnections between four females of a single family as they experience major transitions in their respective lives. When Sarfati met Sasha and Sloane, the two young sisters of the series, they were coping with a radical cultural and psychological transition, having recently moved to their mother Christine's Oakland loft from their grandparent's highly conventional suburban home in Phoenix. Christine subsequently moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of a singing career.
Lise Sarfati's work can be found in the permanent collections of a number of important institutions including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
She has been the recipient of several distinguished awards, including both the Prix Niepce, Paris, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, New York.
Sarfati's photographs will be the subject of a major retrospective at the Bibliothèque Nationale in 2014.
Gift of the artist.