Group Dynamics

At this exhibition, Mireille Loup shows her latest photography serie, "The Others".Mireille Loup shows this suspended time which is adolescence. Three characters with hypnotized eyes, their bodies in suspension, with blurred faces on which the spectator’s eyes cannot settle, and which seem to be bidding their time between the bath and the sofa.A girl climbs the stairs of a turret. Streaks of bluish light escape from the stones, showing her the way to follow. We can imagine that she will prick her finger with the tip of a spindle. As Bruno Bettelheim has so well developed in his book "Psychoanalysis and fairy tales ", Mireille Loup states this somnolence, this transparency awaiting a future where other’s eyes allow the obvious link to existence.Auras and white smoke follow the characters, and give a supernatural appearance to these already timeless places. The term “The Others” hides the ideas of unfamiliar and strange. We will then remember the scenario of the same title written by Alejandro Amenabar. In this series of pictures, the ghostly presence is reinforced by indirect light and milky hues.Mireille Loup even goes to backlighting extremes, that her practice of photography allows her to control to perfection. One will then remember these white images of her previous series “Mem”, where the artist used a veil in front of the lens of her camera.“The Others” is associated with three landscapes depicted in a very fictional red tonality. One of them shows a room where the combined action of lines both imprisons and attracts to the outside.The two other landscapes, inside chinese temples, without any apparent sign of human life, are filled with the smoke of incense. They emphasize this sensible exploration of the cycle of life that Mireille Loup reveals here, especially when we understand that in China, red is the symbol of life and death as rebirth.Where the dreams of teenagers stretch, Mireille Loup reveals one of life’s aspects to reconsider.