Viviane Sassen‘s “Love-Hate Relationship With Fashion” Is On Display in a New Exhibition
As much as Viviane Sassen is known in certain spheres as a fashion photographer—she’s shot campaigns for Carven, Miu Miu, 3.1 Phillip Lim, and Acne Studios, just to name a few—she’s also a name in the art world, which has lead to her exhibition, alongside a show of the photographer Lee Miller, in an appreciation of Surrealism, at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England. ”Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror” features new pieces and selections from her work of the past decade, arranged, in an homage to the avant-garde movement, into a series of so-called image-poems. On view through October, the exhibition also serves as a retrospective of sorts of the Amsterdam-based artist and photographer, touching on her “love-hate relationship with fashion,” and including a spread of photographs she took in Kenya, where she spent part of her childhood; her experimentations with mirrors during a family trip to the red sand dunes of Namibia; and the results of the years and years spent playing with light and shadows. Take a look inside the show, here.
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Viviane Sassen, Luxaflex, from the series “Mud and Lotus,” 2017. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, Ra, from the series “Mud and Lotus,” 2017. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, Belladonna, from the series “Parasomnia,” 2010. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, Yellow Vlei, from the series “Umbra,” 2014. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, Untitled from Roxane II, 086, from the series “Roxana II,” 2017. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, Marte #02, from the series “Umbra,” 2014. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, Inhale, from the series “Parasomnia,” 2011. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, Three Planets, from the series “Mud and Lotus,” 2017. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, HCG, from the series “Mud and Lotus,” 2017. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, Nepenthes Alata, from the series “Mud and Lotus,” 2017. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
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Viviane Sassen, Eudocimus Ruber, from the series “Mud and Lotus,” 2017. Featured in the exhibition “Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror,” on view at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, in Yorkshire, England, through October 2018.
