Rachel Fleminger Hudson, between realism and fantasy

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London-based photographer, costume designer, and filmmaker Rachel Fleminger Hudson reinvents the previous by recounting scenes of life by way of the lens of materiality and imagery influenced by 1970s aesthetics. 

This 25-year-old interdisciplinary artist, educated at Central Saint Martins School of Artwork and Design in London, examines how society constructs perceptions of the past and exhibits the way it anchors this nostalgia in the present. An fascinating visual and cultural research of individuals, spaces, and our emotional ties to clothes. Her portfolio is inspired by the theater and cinema of the 1960s and 70s in a course of that mixes images, hairstyles, props, make-up, and an in depth private vintage wardrobe. Her textured colour photographs take us right into a disturbing recomposition of the previous with modern characters dwelling a fictional actuality. No marvel she gained the Dior Prize for Images and Visual Arts for Young Skills, launched by Christian Dior Parfums, LUMA Arles, and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP). Rachel Fleminger Hudson makes clothing not a trend accessory but a way of telling stories.

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Her work is filled with humor, whimsical reinventions, and emotional complexity, centered on materiality. One instance is The Piece, based mostly on the play La Ronde by Viennese Arthur Schnitzler, which she directed this yr. This movie options four interconnected couples and explores the latent tensions and contradictions of the 1970s via trend. Her references to the cinema of Ken Russell, John Cassavetes, and Ingmar Bergman are palpable. A nine-month work that resulted in an archive of three thousand photographs that experiment with totally different types. Her expertise also consists of research for costume designer Sandy Powell on Oliver Hermanus’ movie, Dwelling, and for the clothes brand Ilana Blumberg, worn by Harry Types for Spotify. Rachel Fleminger Hudson brilliantly reappropriates the symbolism of the seventies, going past stereotypical photographs to raised deconstruct and shape an id with the faces of right now.

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Nathalie Dassa

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