interpretation | melfunktion

rulers over surreal worlds

There are unfamiliar worlds waiting to be discovered, filled with very well known objects of our everyday life yet staged in an unexpected way beyond recognition, draped with exuberant costumes of various shapes and colours. The insignia of power, the signs of their dreamland, hang from their bodies, stick to their skin and surround the sphere of their heads. These queens have truly incorporated their sensual empire. Every single one a proud queen, patron saint of ornaments, ruler over an empire of symbols, inviting the viewer to lose oneself. “13 Queens” – that is an intriguing gallery of flamboyantly dressed dignitaries – definitely not from this world. The more one contemplates a picture the less obvious becomes the queen in its midst: the magic emanates from the details, from the reinterpreted use of objects and from the desire to find ever more magical ornaments.

alex & felix

I fell in love with the work of this Swiss photography duo after seeing an exhibit in London in 2011.

Fascinating. Enchanting.