"Mimétisme relatif"
(Relative mimicry) Series
1973 / 1976
From Photographs of women for calendars.
– Dorothée Selz poses and is being photographed as the
"pin-ups"
– She draws with China ink, on a B&W impression, objects that her model wears or is surrounded by (Leather boots, lamppost…)
– She creates a diptych with both women, the model + herself
– She puts around the diptych a frame worked "like" a pastry
Relative mimicry is a humorous proposition about the fascination and/or the reject of looking like the "seducing woman" model.
Photographs on paper, wood support,
cement, acrylic paint
35,5 x 60 cm (13.9 x 23.6 in.) each diptych
Collection MACBA Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum (ESP)
Photo © D.R., Brice Martenet-Cuidet