Flesh & Fiction
Jorick Michiels · 5 series · 191 frames · 17 photographed · 174 generated · 23 passages
NOIR ELEGANCE 2015 · 54 frames · 17 photographed, 37 generated · six pairs that demonstrably belong together
A shoot from February 2015, and the images it produced eight years later. Where the two demonstrably belong together, they stand side by side and the seam is left visible. Where they do not, each frame says what it is.
fleshfiction.studio/noir-elegance/ →Seventeen of these frames stood before a lens, in February 2015.
ZAHARA
One hundred and three words from the vocabulary of fashion photography, shuffled blind for every frame. Nobody wrote these pictures. They were dealt.
fleshfiction.studio/zahara/ →The other hundred and seventy-four never did. Nobody here exists. One woman did.
GOLD GROUND
Forty-nine women, frontal and haloed, on a ground of gold that is not a place. An icon is a surface built so that someone can be present in it. There is nobody behind the gold.
fleshfiction.studio/gold-ground/ →It is not about realism versus artificiality.
SIDE BY SIDE
Two women on a ridge, asked for fifteen ways and answered thirty-five times. Nobody climbed the ridge. Nobody held the camera the instructions keep describing.
fleshfiction.studio/side-by-side/ →It is about how easily one becomes the other.
NOVI
A warehouse, a lighting plan, and a choreography counted out to dancers who never come into focus. The woman at the centre has a name and an age. She is a different woman in every frame.
fleshfiction.studio/novi/ →