The metaphors are clearly intentional, and the friction feels real. In a group called “Dialogues,” Ducruet’s mother and father are literally in each other’s faces with odd shows of affection - pinching cheeks, biting each other, and tweaking noses. This box of family photos continues to explore variations on the themes of family influence, manipulation and control. It’s funny, but it has an undercurrent that creates a taut tension. This is just one of many poses in this series, and the women are clearly directing the show here - the men perform as they are told. Her mother draws the same scene (perhaps exaggerating the size of the belly), and both views - photo and drawing - are presented side by side. He appears a bit ridiculous, like a modern-day Quixote. Ducruet photographs him from below, with his foot perched on lichen-colored solid rock. In one hilarious stance, the father poses as an archer ready to launch an invisible arrow with an invisible bow. In one series, the males of the family (father and son) seem not the least bit embarrassed to be pictured dressed only in underwear, with slightly sagging bellies, as they assume comic-heroic poses that mimic old paintings and historic statues.ĭucruet stages the scenarios and makes photographs, while her mother sketches each pose from a slightly different perspective with charcoal on paper. The work becomes a kaleidoscope of subtext as members of the family slip in and out of expected roles: mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, husband and wife.
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In this brilliant photo book called Family Games, French photographer Diane Ducruet has broken free of all the usual formulas and has come up with a thought-provoking series of staged portraits that play with the ideas of family dynamics, identity, control, influence, postures of power, and more. But on closer examination, we see that this extended performance of role-playing and intimate interactions is serious art, and not quite so light and frivolous as it seems at first. Well, yes, it’s a family of artists, and each seems comfortable revealing playful, creative poses that are far from ordinary family snapshots. If you don’t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here.At first glance, it looks like everyone in the family is having fun, acting out goofy scenarios for the camera. To follow us on Twitter: Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter This was drawn almost 400 years ago in a world very different from ours yet the everyday fun it shows could be any family snapshot, yours or mine. The man’s walking stick invites us to see this as an emblem of youth and age, a telling study of time’s effects – yet any cold analysis is undermined by the child’s irrepressible playfulness and the elderly companion’s obvious enjoyment of such high spirits. These drawings of an old man playing with a child effortlessly combine precise observation, allegorical symbolism and sheer insight into the human condition. Rembrandt’s compassion and empathy inhabit the quickest lines and simplest sketches.
Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum
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