1.0 Circumspectly using the artifice and light of master painting as sources, Loretta Lux creates mesmerizing images of enigmatic children who have been superimposed in front of her painted backgrounds and appear trapped in time between two worlds. This paradoxical tension between the past and future, the painterly and the photographic, the ideal and the absurd, the real and the fake, challenges our sentimental visions of childhood.
© Loretta Lux. Sasha and Ruby, 2005. 19
× 25 inches. Dye-destruction print. Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, ...
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