Viviane Sassen
The Body As Sculpture
Have you ever looked at your body and imagined it as something else – a shape, a form, a sculpture? The Body As Sculpture invites you to break free from rigid beauty standards. Through self-portraits, sculpture and surrealist collages, Sassen deconstructs and reshapes the human body to embrace its infinite forms - highlighting the connection between outer and inner transformation.
As a child, Viviane Sassen played with perspective, twisting her body into unfamiliar, fluidshapes. Later, while modeling during her fashion studies, she experienced a male-dominated industry that demanded desirability. She took photographs of herself to reclaim control of the gaze:
“My experience of being photographed by men influenced my approach – I wanted to create a kind of sexuality that defied the male gaze. One that felt fractured and discontinuous.”
With a unique experimental style, Viviane Sassen offers a vision of the body as fluid, abstract and full of possibility.
CREDITS
This exhibition is curated by Marina Paulenka (Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska Berlin) and coordinated by Yolandé Gouws (Exhibitions Manager at Fotografiska Berlin). This exhibition is part of EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography.
