1) plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised;
2) a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes; "give your home a facelift"; "more than a facelift, the new model marks a fundamental change of direction"
Quote:
1) Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing, 'Self Portrait as My Grandmother Nancy Gregory', 2006framed bromide print, 60 x 48 3/8 inches
"Self Portrait as My Uncle"2) Alexandre Farto
Lifting off the surface to expose a face. Usual images become unusual due to the materials and places they are put in.
3) JR and Marco
Photos of silly faces work because of their context - places. If smiles and attitude captured on photographs are imposing power then what if these photographs are communicating to certain group of people, outside of a gallery.
4) Sascha Mordmeyer
Exaggeration through physical devises. A designer's project that relates to my smiles. Fakeness is forced by a device instead by talking.
Maybe a one liner or just an idea but not a finished piece, I really like this project.
"communication prosthesis is a unique object designed by sascha nordmeyer which aims to communicate
for its user. the object is a small, rigid red circle which is inserted into a user’s mouth. once installed,
the prosthesis holds the mouth open and forms strange expressions. nordmeyer describes the project
as a research concept that is ‘the ultimate communication tool’. in addition to the device itself,
nordmeyer also created this series of photographs featuring various professionals such as a politician,
a midwife, a craftsman and an actress wearing the prosthesis. the pictures and the prosthesis are both
available in limited editions. "
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/11590/sascha-nordmeyer-communication-prosthesis.html
5) Howard Greenhalgh and Soundgarden
Some coleagues expressed concern that my work derives from 1990's music videos and the trend of mocking middle class suburbia. I can only remember with nostalgia the commercial pop music from that period which was so different than the 2000's. And mocking commercialism was as intense in the 60's as it was in the 90's, example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSpJeJvdu0
stills from Black Hole Sun (1995), Soundgarden
6) Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Exaggeration through maximum face expressions. Clown or child like movies that explore the topic of the "small person", people who are not heroic, don't posses super powers, pretty common and unusual in the same time. Everything is exaggerated of course facial expressions too. His work reminds me of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton who focus on the marginals of society and through their use of humor criticize social dogmas.
7) Aki Kaurismäki
Exaggeration through minimum face expressions. The idea behind his movies seems to be doing everything in the most non Hollywood way. That means of course no happy ends and no pronounced facial expressions.
8) Marina Abramovich
Photos of silly faces work because of their context - who makes them. A conceptual piece in the MoMA, 2016, by Georgi Ivanov who hired 7 people for $7/hour to confront with their gazes the visitors of the museum for 7 hours a day. The face lifting topic fits with her affection of plastic surgery.
9) Britta Thie
3) JR and Marco
Photos of silly faces work because of their context - places. If smiles and attitude captured on photographs are imposing power then what if these photographs are communicating to certain group of people, outside of a gallery.
4) Sascha Mordmeyer
Exaggeration through physical devises. A designer's project that relates to my smiles. Fakeness is forced by a device instead by talking.
Maybe a one liner or just an idea but not a finished piece, I really like this project.
"communication prosthesis is a unique object designed by sascha nordmeyer which aims to communicate
for its user. the object is a small, rigid red circle which is inserted into a user’s mouth. once installed,
the prosthesis holds the mouth open and forms strange expressions. nordmeyer describes the project
as a research concept that is ‘the ultimate communication tool’. in addition to the device itself,
nordmeyer also created this series of photographs featuring various professionals such as a politician,
a midwife, a craftsman and an actress wearing the prosthesis. the pictures and the prosthesis are both
available in limited editions. "
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/11590/sascha-nordmeyer-communication-prosthesis.html
5) Howard Greenhalgh and Soundgarden
Some coleagues expressed concern that my work derives from 1990's music videos and the trend of mocking middle class suburbia. I can only remember with nostalgia the commercial pop music from that period which was so different than the 2000's. And mocking commercialism was as intense in the 60's as it was in the 90's, example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSpJeJvdu0
stills from Black Hole Sun (1995), Soundgarden
6) Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Exaggeration through maximum face expressions. Clown or child like movies that explore the topic of the "small person", people who are not heroic, don't posses super powers, pretty common and unusual in the same time. Everything is exaggerated of course facial expressions too. His work reminds me of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton who focus on the marginals of society and through their use of humor criticize social dogmas.
7) Aki Kaurismäki
Exaggeration through minimum face expressions. The idea behind his movies seems to be doing everything in the most non Hollywood way. That means of course no happy ends and no pronounced facial expressions.
8) Marina Abramovich
Photos of silly faces work because of their context - who makes them. A conceptual piece in the MoMA, 2016, by Georgi Ivanov who hired 7 people for $7/hour to confront with their gazes the visitors of the museum for 7 hours a day. The face lifting topic fits with her affection of plastic surgery.
9) Britta Thie
A professional model with MFA making videos. I like the idea. Also you cannot go wrong when showing pretty females.
10) Erik Kessels and Joep Eljkens, In Almost Every Picture #7
I like these series without reading the review, the images themselves made me spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what is going on. One person whose face changes slightly compared to the "face" of 20th century decades changing one after another another.
"In almost every picture #7 tells the story of a Dutch woman whose life is seen from the point of view of a fairground shooting gallery. The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize." http://www.lensculture.com/kessels.html?thisPic=1
Shooting from britta thie on Vimeo.
liquify from britta thie on Vimeo.
10) Erik Kessels and Joep Eljkens, In Almost Every Picture #7
I like these series without reading the review, the images themselves made me spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what is going on. One person whose face changes slightly compared to the "face" of 20th century decades changing one after another another.
"In almost every picture #7 tells the story of a Dutch woman whose life is seen from the point of view of a fairground shooting gallery. The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize." http://www.lensculture.com/kessels.html?thisPic=1
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