Nathalie Daoust
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Nathalie Daoust became known as a photographer in 2002 with her book "New York Hotel Story." The project was then completed in Japan with "Tokyo Hotel Story," the phenomenon of the Japanese "Love-Hotels," in which lovers can withdraw into theme-hotel-rooms and are given an opportunity to live out their fantasies. With that, the artist has traversed the area between dream and reality, and certainly has not ignored the human need for a flood of the fantasy world.
Whether in New York, Tokyo or Barcelona, Nathalie Daoust has always asserted a child’s contempt for reality. The young photographer from Montreal has devoted all her art to unveiling the secrets hidden under the apparent stability of forms. Her fascination for hotel rooms attests to her interest in intimacy : that which is fashioned in the blurs, the ghostly shadows and the blotted contours. Sheltered from the light of day, her rooms fashioned after Lewis Carroll notions welcome fuzzy silhouettes, sometimes erotic, pared down, always with a point of humor. Daoust is a conceptual creator, photographer and set designer, an explorer in the artistic adventure. Until now her peregrinations have taken her from New York, the Carlton Arms hotel, to the Love Hotels of Tokyo, the workshop of a printer in Bali, or a high tech lab in Sydney. So many kinds of reality to filter through her fantasies.
