ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The project Who’s That Nude In The Living Room?, set up in 2009, gathers different collections. Inspired by the 50’s, entirely in black and white, the Backstage collection plunges us into the atmosphere of cigarettes and whiskey.

The Backstage collection is mainly inspired by the 50s and 60s. I wanted to pay tribute to this period for several reasons: first of all, it is a time when in the mentalities it was a real liberation. On all aspects: the mentalities, the liberation of the bodies, the sexual liberation, the liberation of mores. I find that after centuries and centuries where one imprisoned the man and the woman in their bodies, where we demonized the body, I found that it was a beautiful tribute to this time, where we were freed.

And then, it is an atmosphere which always liked me, which always attracted me. I often have the feeling that I was born a few years too late. The 50’s and 60’s, in terms of music and cinema, were, in my opinion, the apogee of 20th-century culture.

AUTHOR
Idan Wizen is a French Israeli artist living in Paris. Graduated in 2008 from the London University of the Arts, he then turned to visual art that was both humanistic and committed.


While Idan challenged himself by creating art working with regular people, most of whom have never done a professional photoshoot. His artistic direction and the lighting composition realize a dreamlike image with a unique atmosphere, and yet it remains ultra-realistic.


Idan Wizen’s projects share the unwavering desire to make the spectator ponder; his photographs push the viewer to look diferently at the world, in order to understand the real message and see beyond what the machine is feeding them.

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