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Les avatars de Vénus
Les avatars de Vénus
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LES AVATARS DE VÉNUS

Directed by Jean-Jacques Lebel
France, 2007
Short, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

40-minute morphing of Venus figures from all ages and civilizations, which have been collected by Jean-Jacques Lebel over the years. The video is part of Lebel’s installation in time and space Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus.

Synopsis

40-minute morphing of Venus figures from all ages and civilizations, which have been collected by Jean-Jacques Lebel over the years. The video is part of Lebel’s installation in time and space Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus.

Our take

Jean-Jacques Lebel, the French pioneer of early Happenings, produced this video from his vast collection of images of Venus. Women’s bodies morph and meld into each other across time, media, and civilizations, reminding us that depictions of the female body are always changing and always political.