Nudity is not taboo any longer. But is it constricted to a canvas on which fantasies and business are mixed?
To capture the mystery, that is a body in its fragility and its eroticism, is Piere Joël's approach in his design that is naïve as well as deeply symbolic for the nude.
Influenced by black and mischievous symbolists and surrealists, the photographs by Piere Joël always a challenge to our view of the body and especially of this great mystery of the female body.
Is it an object that can be assembled and disassembled at will?
Is it the most direct and most embarrassing expression of our fantasies?
The woman finds herself in the shadows of the studio. In her most beautiful clothes she expresses her most secret thoughts (or are they the viewers'?) with her accessories that let her alternately seem angelic and perverse, gates and chains. At the same time offered and unaccessible. And it is the artist who brings light into the secrets and brings them out of the shadows in which they lurk.
And when he is in his most intimate element, this object of so many questions of men, he transforms the charming bud into a seductive and terrible icon.
It would be a shame to withstand the temptation.
Deiana Célia.