Austin, Texas

Lise Sarfati | 08.05.09 > 14.06.09
Brancolini Grimaldi | Rome

EN : This new series of Lise Sarfati was completed in 2008, as a part of her trilogy on the United States wich started with the series The New Life, published by Twin Palms in 2005 and continued with the series Immaculated and She, which will be published this year by Steidl Mack and as a portfolio in Aperture magazine. The series Austin, Texas was published in October 2008 by Magnum Publisher under the title Lise Sarfati, Fashion Magazine. In her work, Lise Sarfati never makes a distinction between documentary and fiction. The choice of the city of Austin, Texas is not trivial: Austin is both the geographic center of the United States and the epicenter of the underground rock scene. Austin, Texas presents teenage characters operating in a familiar environment: that of Austin, with its wooden houses, its interiors, its streets and its muted colors. Lise Sarfati focuses on the theme of the relationship between the body and space. It is this permanent interaction of the characters with space that structures her approach . She does not refer to her work as portraits, but as 'studies' of figures.