I Never told Anyone by Bénédicte Vanderreydt

These seven images represent the women in Bénédicte Vanderreydt’s family that have been oppressed and objectified by a male dominated society, at a time when personal honour was of great significance to men.
I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt

These seven images represent the women in Bénédicte Vanderreydt’s family that have been oppressed and objectified by a male dominated society, at a time when personal honour was of great significance to men.

A social power held by men but in fact passed on by women through matrilinearity. These women of her family are divine powers who pass on the savage, the liberty and the passion to the point of being outside the social world and ruling in a “between women” world closed and silent. The story of women oppressed by social conventions is a universal one.

Binche is a small town in southern Belgium steeped in Northern European folklore and her family history. This carnival is the only one in Europe genuinely rooted to its origins. In ancient mythology the woman has no voice. Excluded from the ritual she is reduced to a sexual and mysterious object. This is where the two stories intersect: personal (the family story) and the wider discourse (myths and folklore). Bénédicte Vanderreydt uses the strength of the mask, this ritual instrument par excellence, that “dresses” the woman, metamorphoses her, displays her or dresses her up.This presentation is a ‘once upon a time’ tale, that reassures by displaying a fiction. These are pictures whose often cruel accuracy is tempered through cinematic effects. Despite this heavy implementation, the choice of the still image is clear, determined by its power and also by its ability for reminiscences. All the locations are shot in Binche and its surroundings. The characters represented are all from Binche and the majority of them are part of her family.

I Never Told Anyone
I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt / Forclore – 2015 Impression pigmentaire de qualité archivale sur papier Baryté 80 x 120 cm Edition de 8

I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt
I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt / Captive(s) – 2015 Impression pigmentaire de qualité archivale sur papier Baryté 80 x 120 cm Edition de 8

These women around me do not always tell the truth.

Like a scream in the night, they once arose in my dreams and asked me to release them.

They undressed in front of me but kept their masks on.

They whispered words wrapped in Ostrich feathers, in confetti and white laces.

They invited me to magical and chilling places.

And they reminded me of my childhood.

I NEVER TOLD ANYONE – Bénédicte Vanderreydt –

I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt
I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt / Mercredi des Cendres – 2015 Impression pigmentaire de qualité archivale sur papier Baryté 80 x 120 cm Edition de 8

About Bénédicte Vanderreydt 

‘Throughout her series of photographs Benedicte Vanderreydt explores different layers in the construction of female identity. From adolescence to adulthood, she shows the successive roles that women are able to embody : child, wife, mother , mistress, etc.

Each of her projects meets a singular aesthetic where the place of the staging is strong, revisiting with cinematic images that will haunt the viewer for a long time. She questions and challenges the permanence of certain ancestral rites of passage in our contemporary society like the Carnival in her series ‘I never told anyone’. Social networks, family mythology and factual research are the starting point of her photographic reflection, but as a photographer she is not limited to the transcription of a reality but is constantly seeking to sublimate and interpret it. With her theatrical training her photographic work highlights the illusionistic power of masks, either on social media or those who adopt a mask at a carnival, (as the series of photographs ‘I never told anyone’ exposes). Being masked allows a character to become a silent link which is reminiscent of the paintings of Paul Delvaux.’

Heloise Conesa – Director of engravings, and Photography Department – BNF (Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, Paris).

Graduated from the IHECS University in Brussels and then from the drama school Xavi Gratacos in Barcelona, Bénédicte Vanderreydt eventually deepened her knowledge in photography at Gobelins School in Paris.  [Official Website]

I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt
I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt / Territoires – 2015 Impression pigmentaire de qualité archivale sur papier Baryté 80 x 120 cm Edition de 8

I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt
I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt / Non Grata – 2015 Impression pigmentaire de qualité archivale sur papier Baryté 80 x 120 cm Edition de 8

I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt
I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt / Héritage – 2015 Impression pigmentaire de qualité archivale sur papier Baryté 80 x 120 cm Edition de 8

I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt
I Never told Anyone / Bénédicte Vanderreydt / Post Coïtum – 2015 Impression pigmentaire de qualité archivale sur papier Baryté 80 x 120 cm Edition de 8

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