SHANEN LOUIS - EXPOSURE INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL

Can you see me? is a work about black bodies finally having a place in space. Viewers get to experience a new perspective by ‘’seeing through’’ a black woman's body. By interacting with the artwork and other viewers through the work, Can you see me? makes us question the position and the space black bodies occupy in the sociopolitical sphere.

Born from Haitians parents in Québec, Canada, Shanen has been dedicating the last years to art; photography especially. Shanen has an interest in conceptual art, more precisely in art engaging the Black community -particularly Black women-, and their relationship to intimacy, their body and their sexuality. Thus, making it her mission to demystify prejudice around Black people’s sensuality. As an additional way to perfect her art, she seeks to combine the material and fragile rendering of film photography and expand the limits of photography into her concept in order to create an artistic piece. It then allows viewers to connect and empathize with the subject that is often portrayed "naked" and vulnerable in the photographs.''

BIOGRAPHY

Born from Haitians parents in Québec, Canada, Shanen has been dedicating the last years to art; photography especially after her DEC in Visual Arts and now that she is majoring in Photography. Having lived in a city mainly composed of Caucasians, she always felt like she had a duty presenting the point of vue of a woman of color, especially someone from the Black community. On an artistic level, Shanen has an interest in conceptual art, more precisely in art engaging the Black community and their relationship to intimacy, their body and their sensuality. Thus, making it her mission to demystify prejudice around Black people’s sensuality. As an additional way to perfect her art, she seeks to combine the material and fragile rendering of film photography into her concept in order to create an artistic whole. It then allows viewers to connect and empathize with the subject that is often portrayed "naked" and vulnerable in the photographs.