ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“I have long been attracted by the human figure; the beauty and the aesthetic of its lines and volumes, and its endless variety have been at the center of my work.

As a woman, I have been very annoyed and disturbed by the use and abuse of the nude, particularly the female figure, by the media that eroticize it in order to commercialize it. I have attempted to reverse the process by spiritualizing my nudes or desexualizing it by using the abstractions of its forms.

In my commercial work, I am not so much interested in ‘recording’ a reality, as I am in creating a ‘scene’, ‘capturing’ an emotion or a feeling in response to a visual stimulus (earlier work), or in ‘playing’ at altering the ‘shape’ I am studying or observing, by use of strong colors and graphic forms combinations (latest work).

The Polaroid film medium I worked with, has allowed me to endow my figures with power of their own: their life and momentum coming from the inside. They push, press and modify the very fabric of the image they are trapped in. They extend themselves to open up their world or emerge from it in a fashion very similar to my own spirit. The photographic work then becomes more interpretive than literal, open to a viewer’s own flight of fancy.

Using bright colors to emphasize its lines, I tried to select, assemble or dissociate body parts to create new forms and volumes, without direct association with gender.

Because of the brand new possibilities opened by the advances in digital imaging technology, I have an opportunity to explore the effect of size and materials, which drastically affect the visual impact of images and their perception. It is this new exploration upon which I am about to embark now.”

PROFILE

Annie was born in Paris, France. Her work has been published in several magazines and she has won many awards. Lemoux has had one-woman shows in Tijuana, Mexico, Tokyo, Japan, and San Diego, California. She has also participated in innumerable group exhibitions throughout California and Baja. Over the last several years she and her work has been a subject of interviews for various newspapers and magazines.