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From Duane Michals to Tracey Moffatt, a tradition of alone or abandoned, often injured and sometimes
dreamlike photography exists where mise en scène is victims of violence, amid a décor which steals their

used to construct dramatic scenarios within the image, limelight, at the end of a story of which we know nothing.
yet with Tami Amit the meaning of these fictions is This suffering inflicted upon the body sometimes finds
fragmented, as with a shattered mirror. Piecing together its mirror and its mise en abime in the object of the doll
the fictions from which these photographs are extracted as simulacrum and fetish, a possible initiator or a broken
is difficult, complex and ambiguous: these images with figure, following its use by Hans Bellmer… Will the

their mysteriously intense and elliptical narratives seem enigma of these solitary, exhausted, introverted women
not to exist beyond the frame. It is difficult to find a be resolved as their characters become the allegories
thread, or trace a narrative, when, captured in a cubist of our cruel and modern fairytales? Hallucination,

and dissonant rhythm, these glimpses of a body, a allegories, the exhaustion of fiction… Might Tami Amit’s
shoulder, or a back, isolated and neglected, are followed photographs be mirages?
by a road or forest landscape … The magnificent women
who pose for Tami Amit are set in scenes of suffering; Mirages by Tami Amit by Alexandre Castant

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