“On a quiet winter night, I looked out a window. I could see a building far away, the windows where illuminated, and I could vaguely make out people inside their apartments. When I imagined what they might be doing, my mind fluttered between wild fantasies and mundane clichés. I was curious to compare my expectations to the reality of their lives.
After months of continuous observation in different parts of the city I collected hundreds of photographs of strange, comical, and often haunting moments.
At times, I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of human nature when it was not guarded, not self-conscious and completely uninhibited. This provided me with a stage where it was possible to observe myself in the most secret and vulnerable moments of others.
In order to render the subjects unrecognizable, and in an attempt to render them more archetypal, they are taken out of context and displaced from their original habitat.”
La visione urbana di Yasmine Chatila e’ molto romantica. Lei e’ giovane ed americana. Fa l’artista, dipinge, scatta e ruba momenti di vita. I suoi soggetti, semplicemente, vivono la propria quotidianita’ e senza saperlo, diventano opere d’arte.
Stolen Moments raccoglie momenti instimi, strani, comici, a volte (spesso) piccanti. La mostra e’ ospitata da Edelman Arts, una galleria d’arte dell’Upper East Side che espone anche lavori degli italianissimi Fontana e Giacometti. Non siete a New York? Nessun problema, potete visitare la mostra online qui.
Una poetica comédie humaine urbana.
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Per un attimo ho pensato che fossi tu l’autrice anche di questa cosa, vedi un po’ che stima… come te la passi in Ammerica?