Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to present the latest series of works by the French artist Valérie Belin. The new exhibition will showcase twelve black and white silver gelatin prints, from her new series YOHOHO.Taking as her subject the famous burlesque, cabaret clubs of Paris, Belin shot all the film at Le Moulin Rouge and Le Lido. She then carefully constructed each image by layering two negatives together, creating luminous studies of a familiar yet mysterious world, an…

How do you describe colour? Even the dictionary definition of it is poetic: That aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of the light reflected or emitted by them, definable interms of the observer or of the light. And; a substance, such as a dye, pigment, or paint,that imparts a hue. And; a reddening of the face; a blush. The scientific words to objectify it are beautiful too: hyperchromatism, wavelength, luminance, iridescence and purity. Since 1861 and the first perman…

Valérie Belin's large-scale colour photographs of eerily perfect models are beautiful and unnervingly. This is the first time that Belin has used colour in her photographs and yet she retains her signature style of a subject uncannily deprived of context. This will be the artist's second exhibition at Michael Hoppen Contemporary. This new series of work is both a progression and a reversal from Belin's black and white portraits of mannequins that appeared uncannily human taken in 2003. The mod…