Valerie Phillips – Little Baby Nothings

‘Folio’ is a collection of photographs illustrating the origins of Viviane Sassen’s visual language. All of the images presented in this book were taken in the mid-1990s, at the outset of her career as a photographer. With a spontaneous and personal approach, Sassen takes her immediate surroundings and environment as her preferred subjects. These images reflect a taste for staging, framing, and perspective that she developed early on. Such stylistic tools continue to allow her to incarnate the strange and even disturbing aspects at the heart of everything we deem familiar. In her texts, she reveals herself just as she does in her photographs, by weaving dreams with reality.