Heretic series

Our work for the past 15 years has used photography as the primary medium and the door to the experiments weโ€™ve undergone. With Heretic we are using photography as an ingredient in a surrealistic based genetic recombination. We have used a glut of materials throughout our work. These elementsโ€ฆ blood, wax, resin, gold, charcoal, have been integral as the underpinning of idea and underscoring of the photograph. The materials now are used as a statement rather than a substrate.

Our characters in Heretic are still Southern Gothic by nature and now in form: blurry, damaged, delusional but with a thread of dark humor. These subjects and materials are at times irrational, supernatural, transgressive and impulsive. Heretic is not so much about telling a story as it is an exploration of image and marks being made by an unreliable narrator. We are using beauty as rebellion and creating a space for the viewer between anarchy and form.

-Louviere+Vanessa

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