Nathalie Daoust

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Nathalie Daoust (2003)

Nathalie Daoust (born March 31, 1977 in Montréal ) is a Canadian photographer . She studied photography at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal from 1994 to 1997 and has since used her photography as a tool to freely interpret the world around her.

job

Tokyo Hotel Story, Japan

After graduating, Nathalie Daoust moved to New York , where she lived and photographed the differently designed rooms of the Carlton Arms Hotel from 1997 to 1999. These recordings led to her first solo exhibition and were published in her first book New York Hotel Story in 2002 . Her subsequent projects such as Street Kiss or Tokyo Girls explore topics of female sexuality as well as the desire of modern people to escape and lead us, for example, via a run-down brothel in Brazil to an exclusive love hotel in Japan ( Tokyo Hotel Story , 2009).

The projects Entre Quatre Murs and Frozen in Time indulge in memories and reconstruct the past, the first in the interiors of pre-war Berlin, the other showing intimate moments in the timeless landscape of the Swiss Alps .

Further work focuses on modern China and its intricate relationship to the communist legacy of the Mao Zedong era. Impersonating Mao is the title of the project for which Daoust accompanied and observed a Mao Zedong "actor" in 2008 and 2010 , who immersed himself so far in his Mao role that he abandons his own existence. China Dolls (2010 to 2012) focuses on the changing role of women in China in the 21st century.

Nathalie Daoust also visited North Korea several times in the 2010s . This resulted in her work Korean Dreams with photos that are largely withheld from tourists, journalists and other strangers and explore the mysterious world of everyday life in North Korea. In the eyes of the photographer, North Korean society exists in an unreal state. The photos are heavily processed to the point of blurring and thus point to a mystery behind the surface. For each photo Daoust associates a short text with titles such as “freedom of assembly”, “local public transport”, “traffic regulation”, “three-generation punishment”, “pleasure brigades” and others. This project is an attempt by the artist to come closer to a truth behind the state propaganda. The Korean Dreams series was shown at the Copenhagen Photo Festival in 2016, in 2017 at the GAIA Museum for Outsider Art in Randers , Denmark as part of the European Capital of Culture program, Aarhus, and in the Stadthaus Ulm and was then shown at the Maison des Arts in Drummondville , Canada, and at the Photo Days at the Contemporary Art Space in Batumi , Georgia.

Nathalie Daoust's work has been exhibited internationally since 1999 and has been the subject of numerous publications. She has already received a large number of awards.

subjects

Frozen in Time, Switzerland

With her photography, Daoust explores hidden, inaccessible worlds. By immersing herself in taboos, the photographer often reveals dark sides of female identity in her pictures or the desire of people to escape reality, to create alternative worlds and to oscillate between fantasy, reality and perversion. In the subtitles of her photographs, she often refers to a social, political or historical context. Daoust focuses on topics such as identity , gender stereotypes, femininity, human sexuality or subversion and life plans on the margins of society that neither judge nor shock them. This approach enables Daoust to explore and document hidden desires. In addition to the personal conversations with her protagonists and their experiences on site, she describes the work in the darkroom as an important process in which she uses non-digital techniques to edit her pictures intensively, so that the result of the mood that she creates while photographing feels, as much as possible.

Publications (selection)

  • New York Hotel Story (book, 2002)
  • Photo Sélection magazine - Canada (1997)
  • Numero Uno magazine - Australia (2000)
  • Afisha magazine - Russia (2004)
  • NY Arts magazine - USA (2006)
  • FOTOSITE magazine - Brazil (2007)
  • Art Le Sabord magazine - Canada
  • Helsingin Sanomien - Finland
  • Front magazine - Canada
  • Elephant Magazine - UK

Web links

Commons : Nathalie Daoust  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniela Zinser: SM photographer Daoust: “I am a voyeur, the camera is my excuse”. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE - Culture. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Yet Magazine: Copenhagen Photo Festival. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Event Page. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
  4. ^ Ulm town hall. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: North Korean dreams: "Kim Jong Il never went to the toilet" - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Culture. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Book | Gallery_Categories. Retrieved February 21, 2019 (American English).
  7. ^ Les Éditions d'art Le Sabord. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Kanadalainen Nathalie Daoust salakuvasi pohjoiskorealaisia ​​ja yrittää avartaa käsity stems maailman suljetuimmasta valtiosta. March 11, 2018, accessed February 21, 2019 (Finnish).
  9. ^ Transformations - Western Front. Retrieved February 21, 2019 (American English).
  10. ^ Secret Shots of North Korea. November 16, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Daoust, Nathalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal