Surface Glaze
Artist:
Lotte Meret Effinger
Date:
2015
Medium:
2K colour video
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Surface Glaze (2015) appears as a slow disturbance of the senses, with harmonious and beautiful colours and materials—beige, black, and pink with matte, gloss, and satin. Lotte Meret Effinger has composed a refined, almost sensual aesthetic repertoire. Slow travelling shots linger on skin and pores scrutinized with a macro lens. Body parts move sensually towards the strange object of their desire, when they are not conquered by the latter. To the sound of strangeness, Lotte Meret Effinger makes human and inert matter vibrate in a rare synesthesia. In Surface Glaze, one can almost hear Baudelaire’s ode to the lover’s black tresses, enchanting and full of reminiscences.