Alexandra Bellamy
Bellamy/Bellamy
Published by Filigrane, 2021
Size: 22 x 30 cm
Pages 80 pages with 41 photos
Softcover
Language: French
ISBN: 978-2-35046-548-7
Bellamy/Bellamy. One name, two people? Three? Four?
The Bellamy/Bellamy editorial project is in line with tales, mythologies, stories in which family secrets are omnipresent. A recurring and fascinating human problem. Stories where each protagonist has their vision, their “version” of the story. Bellamy/Bellamy is a story. Photographic. Artistic. Graphic. Editorial. This is, therefore, a story of point of view. Indeed, this project is first and foremost the photographic work of Alexandra Bellamy around her family secret, around Claude, Dieter and Mother. But also of Carine and the others. After a long personal and photographic journey, Alexandra Bellamy has gathered, in a file, photographs of the places of her childhood, portraits and archives. Some supports are therefore photographic and others come from video and sound recordings also taken by her. The archives are diverse: letters, Polaroids from family albums or drawings taken out of boxes… Here each “object” collected has a meaning, a value, with or without an apparent link. And this is where another story begins, the meeting with the graphic designer Marion Kueny. Together, they decide to bring together this artistic work in an edition. Thus, the graphic approach allows to create an articulation between the images, to make the obvious, to tell this family myth. The numbering of the pages becomes dates. The chronology is shaken up. The points of view follow one another like in a play. Reality becomes a little fiction, friction.