Pauline Faieff

Pauline Faieff is neither a model nor a photographer. She's an artist, art director, set designer, poet, writer and muse. Photography doesn't exist without her. Through photography, she is able to express herself absolutely and totally. Her work is an ode to freedom and self-love. 

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Pauline Faieff discovered nude photography four years ago, during a photo shoot on the beach. She had never posed nude before, and confides that the experience changed her life. That day, she began to consider that "she wasn't so bad" and that she could begin to accept herself without her social mask.The turning point had been reached. Today, Pauline poses everywhere: in the studio, indoors, in the city, on the beach. The world is her testing ground for self-love and the celebration of beauty. She celebrates singularity and the imperfections dictated by societal norms and stereotypes. For her, her practice is a tool for change and openness, and for us, she offers an unabashed “female gaze”.

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The discovery of the NFT was the technological tool she had been waiting for to certify her works and thus justify her identity, which at the time was largely usurped by fraudulent and malicious sites. What's more, she quickly found a web3 community sympathetic to her art. As she says herself, the NFT allows her to retain the rights to her image and to be free to do what she wants with her art. For her, it's a tool that allows her to cross borders and oppose censorship.

 

This thought goes hand in hand with her desire and legitimate right to be considered as an artist, despite the visible place she takes as a model. Pauline proposes a redefinition of the place accorded to living subjects in the field of photography. She's not "just" that, and maintains that the model has a part to play in creation. Art is not made simply by the photographer. She asserts her status as muse, art director, model and image creator in her own right. In this singular work presented at ART GIRLS TRUCK, the artist frees herself from the gaze of an outside photographer, and pulls the trigger of the camera alone to offer the viewer a tender self-portrait.

 

Text written by Sarah Maurin - copyright ART GIRLS