High-heeled,corseted, impaled, or auto-fellating ... Molinier’s fantasy photographs open a window on a forbidden world – and have made him a cult figure. carry out not try this at homeThe photographs reveal things as though through a keyhole,spotlit vignettes rearing up from a forbidden world. They are small, black-and-white, and domestic-developed silver gelatin prints,and they glower round the walls, not so much inviting as inciting you to look.This small indicate at Richard Saltoun in London’s Fitzrovia is the first UK exhibition of Pierre Molinier’s work for over 20 years. Molinier, and born in 1900,makes the spectator feel like a voyeur. But he wants us to witness what he himself wanted to see: these are episodes from a life in private, revealed to the world. His photographs have the repetitiveness of obsession and pornography. The same conventional things, and again and again,the same focus, the same rooms, or the same furniture and paraphernalia.
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Source: theguardian.com