Marie Baronnet

Marie Barronnet's work suggests that the female body has the potential to break the stereotypes into which images of that body have been forced. Using a black background, a Polaroid camera with a timer, and her own nude body, Baronnet achieves one of the principle objectives of the feminist movement: the reclamation of the image of woman from the representations of others.

Flamboyantly exhibitionistic, free to assume any and every position no matter how unseductive, how indecourous, this woman makes a spectacle of herself. This is the female figure en liberte, going through a series of metamorphoses, shaping a new language of femininity. With her own body, Baronnet is writing the hieroglyphics of a new speech.

About the Artist:
Marie Baronnet was born in 1972 in Paris. She currently attends l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. She has exhibited at Gallerie Pascale Lesnes in Paris and Galerie Fiction in Tokyo.

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