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SELECTION XXI

EXHIBITED PICTURES

TOP LEFT PICTURE: BROKEN MUSES
Margit Brandl - Philadelphia 2000

This is the original “broken muses” picure, the one that gave the series that I have been building up since its name. I took it in Little Italy in Philadelphia in the US. The mannequins were draped outside of a shop selling scarfs, caps and bonnets.

60 x 90 cm – photography on aluminum

TOP RIGHT PICTURE: BROKEN LIPS
Margit Brandl - Mauritius 2007

A mannequin with beautiful eyes and an exfoliating corner of her mouth. What seems to be a contradiction for her beauty makes her – according to me – even more attractive.

60 x 90 cm – photography on aluminum

BOTTOM LEFT PICTURE: BROKEN NOSE
Margit Brandl - Oostende/Belgium 2006

A day on the Belgian coast was about to end when I discovered this mannequin in a quite unspectacular shop selling clothes for elderly women. It was a windy summer day, 9 p.m., the sun was about to disappear and this broken muse was looking at me with her adorable broken nose.

60 x 90 cm – photography on aluminum

BOTTOM RIGHT PICTURE: ORANGE TRINITY
Margit Brandl - Mauritius 2007

Mauritius is advertised as paradise. Mark Twain even said that “Mauritius was made first and then heaven was copied from it”. Well, that could probably also be said for my personal broken muses heaven; I found many of them in Mauritius.

60 x 90 cm – photography on aluminum

RED LIGHTS AND SHADE
Margit Brandl - Madrid 2006

Madrid in late autumn 2006. During a stunningly beautiful day around midday I saw these red haired muse in front of a clothes shop. I love light and shade and together with her red hair I thought she makes an inspiring red lights and shade muse.

20 x 30 cm – photography on wood

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