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Her representations of the body radiate sensitivity with respect for the intimate without voyeurism.
Her language is that of dreams and fantasy, always oscillating on the edge of the real and the strange.
All her disturbing and fascinating images call for different reading levels.
Viviane Sassen manages to create a very personal story in which the shadow is a fundamental aesthetic, stylistic and conceptual element by being both absence and presence in a search for oneself and the other.
«In Bloom» for Dazed Magazine, 2011 © Viviane Sassen and Stevenson (Johannesburg / Cape Town /Amsterdam)