Popel Coumou: Sculptural Photographs
Again discovered through i heart photograph. Spent some time going through the archives on her site. According to the Creative Review blog:
Photographer Popel Coumou assembles two dimensional models of rooms and spaces using cloth, paper and clay. She then lights her compositions using natural daylight and a couple of projectors, photographing the results to create these startling images.
Three from her archives, all Untitled.
I just want to curl up in the space above, it looks so deliciously muted.
I like how these images are liminal in their nature of not-quite-photograph and not-quite-sculpture. Without initially knowing her process of sculptural creation, to me these looked like manipulated photographs since they seem to exist in between photographic realism and the imaginary line of painting or drawing. Either way each space has its own presence, a certain feeling that I find intoxicating. I want to enter the worlds that she has created and exist in their quiet brilliance. Who needs people?
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