Karla Hiraldo Voleau
Nathalie Herschdorfer, Director of Photo Elysée, names Another Love Story in the Best Photography Books of 2023!
"A year. That’s how long it’s been since Karla Hiraldo Voleau’s exhibition Another Love Story first opened at the MEP in Paris in 2022. A year is also the timeframe of the story chronicled in that project – a love story personal to KHV, which shifts abruptly from its climax to its end when she discovers that X, her lover, is leading a double life – a revelation that prompts the artist to question her certainties.
If reality is a lie, perhaps fiction is the remedy. KHV reappropriates her story by re-enacting it, highlighting the mechanisms behind the making of a couple. Each costume, location and image composition exists from meticulous planning from the artist, referring to call sheets and buying clothing duplicates from stores. Her work combines photography, performance and writing, and blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, between the individual and the collective. Through this performance, KHV asserts herself as a subject and reclaims the power of her own history."
Karla Hiraldo Voleau’s artistic work focuses on intimacy as a critical space. Gender, sexuality, emotions and the body are all subjects she tackles in her photographs in order to reveal what is played out beyond appearances. The artist stages herself in her artistic projects, thereby blending autobiographical narratives and fictions. KHV reflects on the photographic medium as a fictional tool and devises a mise en scène of the feeling of love, thus showing the way we reproduce the norms and social evaluations that are supposed to define a couple, often unconsciously.
Press
"Another Love Story looks at the pictures we take without thinking and shows them for what they really are. It slips inside them, it dissects them, to then stage a lie that feels truer than reality."
'Photobook Review: Another Love Story by Karla Hiraldo Voleau' - Camilla Marrese
'10 best photography books to check out this summer' - Alessandro Merola for i-D
'Another Love Story, the project that tells about a relationship and its lies' - Sara Marzullo for Harper's Bazaar Italia (translated from Italian)
Karla Hiraldo Voleau | Another Love Story | Book review by Anneka French, 1000 Words
'The Best Photography Books of 2023', Babelia, El País
Arte Realizzata - Book Highlight
About the Artist
Karla Hiraldo Voleau (born 1992), is a French- Dominican artist who lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.She graduated from ECAL, Lausanne, with a master’s degree in Photography in 2018. She participated in the 2020 edition of the Foam Talent and Olympus Recommended Fellowship. She has exhibited work across Europe and the US, including International Center for Photography, New York and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.
Edition of 750
144 pages
20 x 25 cm
ISBN 978-1-907071-96-6