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Jean Francois Rauzier (French 1952)
Erzebet
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from the series Les Belles Endormies
C-Type print, framed
Edition of 8
Available in 2 sizes
150 x 120 cm / 59 x 47.5 inches
225 x 180 cm / 88.5 x 71 inches
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In 2009 Rauzier embarked on a series of 16 works inspired by the multi-layered story ‘House of the Sleeping Beauties’ by the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata. This complex tale involves men visiting a remote house where girls are sedated into passivity
and the guests can drink in their youth and beauty without any interaction, all the while closely watched by the lady ‘guardian’.
Rauzier saw in this story, in its dreams and illusions, many echoes of the recurrent themes of his own work. Of course there is the obvious parallel between the photographer and his inert model, and between the protagonist of the novel, Eguchi, and the
Belles Endormies. But Rauzier has recreated scenes from Kawabata’s very Japanese story using a completely Western background and specifically French cultural and decorative
references.
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