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Born 1977 in Pretoria, South Africa
Portraiture, the languorous gaze, domestic photography, and how these intersect with desire is central to the work of Cape Town-based artist Pierre Fouché. His employment of these themes exemplifies the subtle and poetic side of queer representation. Fouché’s work consistently represents individuals, from close familiars to strangers whose likenesses are culled from the realm of domestic photography in all its guises: from scratchy old prints to digital downloads.
The portrait is subsequently crafted. It is woven with lace-bobbins, embroidered, written out, cut out of paper, knitted, letter-embossed in plastic, crocheted, assembled with dice or painted on a puzzle. Each instance of Fouché’s interpretation of an individual likeness involves a triadic narrative: the story of the individual represented, the story of the photograph, and the history of the medium and technique used to reinterpret the original moment. These narratives are layered in the final portrait that monumentalizes the personal, the individual, the mundane.
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 Pierre Fouché, The Kiss, 2008, Crochet Lace, 200 x 120 cm |
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 Pierre Fouché, The Distance Between Us II, 2004, Dice, Label Stickers, Cardboard, Pen, Clear Tape, 84 x 109.5 cm |
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 Pierre Fouché, Fred & Denis, 2011, Domestic sewing machine embroidered lace in six panels, 166 x 138 cm |
