Young lady at the Louvre, Young orphan at the cemetery

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The first was the Delacroix model almost 300 years ago, the second was my model a few years ago. My model poses at the Louvre Museum contemplating Delacroix's Jeune orpheline au cimetière painting (Young orphan at the cemetery)

" Olivier Lounissi.
This photographic diptych represents two teenage girls who, through their ressemblance seem to interact with one another through the centuries. Their posture is a reference to the concepts of theatricality and living

tableau

developed by art historian Michael Fried. This concept postulates the unification of viewer and artwork, sharing the same space, as conceived in his opus "Absorption and theatricality : Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot" and "Why Photography Matters as Art as ever Before". This experience assimilated to the one shared between actors and their audience at the theatre, finds a representation in these two young ladies mirrored at the Louvre. The viewer's "absorption" by this diptych adds another level of interpretation to this unification.

Young lady at the Louvre, Young orphan at the cemetery

"

The first was the Delacroix model almost 300 years ago, the second was my model a few years ago. My model poses at the Louvre Museum contemplating Delacroix's Jeune orpheline au cimetière painting (Young orphan at the cemetery)

" Olivier Lounissi.
This photographic diptych represents two teenage girls who, through their ressemblance seem to interact with one another through the centuries. Their posture is a reference to the concepts of theatricality and living

tableau

developed by art historian Michael Fried. This concept postulates the unification of viewer and artwork, sharing the same space, as conceived in his opus "Absorption and theatricality : Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot" and "Why Photography Matters as Art as ever Before". This experience assimilated to the one shared between actors and their audience at the theatre, finds a representation in these two young ladies mirrored at the Louvre. The viewer's "absorption" by this diptych adds another level of interpretation to this unification.