Olivier Valsecchi, 1979, France, is specialized in portraiture and photographing nudes, but the most attention he has recently gotten is with his series Dust. Nude males and females covered in white powder in awkward positions. This most recent work, “Dust,” features men and women seemingly caught in a womb-like dust storm, an alternate universe devoid of gravity and color. “The Dust series is an in-between,” explains the artist. “Between death and birth, in a chronological sense. It is the ‘re’. It is the chaos, the confusion between the water and the gloom that is the cradle of the world. Between the fall and the takeoff, the renunciation and the impulse, the bodies are chalky, zombie-like, between animated and disembodied. The in-between, meaning what is nearly, what is not quite.”
magazine: Eyemazing 2010
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