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Onestar Press 2002
Drawings and layout by the artist.
Paperback, b/w 150 pages, 140x225, Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. 148/250.
Laetitia Benat is an artist born in 1971 who works mainly three mediums: video, photography, and drawing.
_Do these drawings sometimes start with photographs, and more generally, what relationship do they have to your images?
Generally I don’t very often draw starting with photographs, or if I do, it isn’t from photograph-documents made for that reason. I mean, sometimes I’ve posed for a photo myself, in place of a model. But as a whole, it’s more often a question of mental drawings, done like that, which have, as I’ve said, more to do with writing. But I also like to do drawings as studies, to subject myself to such practical experience. I put myself in front of a plant and I draw. And even if I don’t make a direct copy of something, I have plenty of photocopies, a sort of image bank, made up of works of art from every period and of every character—drawing, painting and a lot of sculpture.- Paris, August 06
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