"Her photography studies have allowed Kourtney Roy, a Canadian living in Paris, to forge a polished aesthetic that perfectly permeates glossy paper. Fond of self-portraits and hairpieces, Kourtney Roy stages herself, most often alone, in a relationship with the world that is as offbeat as it is fantasized.
"Her photography studies have allowed Kourtney Roy, a Canadian living in Paris, to forge a polished aesthetic that perfectly permeates glossy paper. Fond of self-portraits and hairpieces, Kourtney Roy stages herself, most often alone, in a relationship with the world that is as offbeat as it is fantasized.
The characters she portrays are sad and impassive, frozen in an ordinary existence that seems to echo a bygone era. Vast ghostly expanses, cinematic sets, and popular cultural artifices are all reminiscences that haunt these delectable images. A varnished world that cracks under the photographer's bouts of self-mockery.
Imbued with a dark charm that owes as much to the grotesqueness of falsely tranquil situations as to their troubled tension, Kourtney Roy's photographs, many times rewarded and exhibited, have been the subject of several publications.
Based on a text by Patrick Remy
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