Memymom
By: Lisa de Boeck & Marilène Coolens ; with texts by Jo Coucke & Kurt Snoekx
Contributors: Boeck, Lisa de, 1985-; Coolens, Marilène, 1953-; Coucke, Jo; Snoekx, Kurt; Musée de la photographie (Charleroi, Belgium)
Publisher: Ludion
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Antwerp, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9789491819971
Subjects: Exhibitions; Photography of women; Staged photography; Artistic Photography; Memymom (Artist group)
Other titles: Lisa de Boeck & Marilène Coolens :; Lisa de Boeck and Marilène Coolens :
Description: Memymom is the name used by the artists' collective and mother-and-daughter team Marilène Coolens (1953) and Lisa De Boeck (1985) since 2004. The seeds of the project were planted in the 1990s, when the photographer Marilène Coolens was taking snapshots of her growing daughter and had her play out scenes from cartoons, fairy tales and TV shows, in the hope of stimulating little Lisa's imagination. The result was an intimate family archive of analogue photographs, which memymom later collected under the title 'The Umbilical Vein'. As the daughter grew up, however, the roles began to shift: Lisa became photographer and model, set dresser and director all at once. And Marilène too extended her role and began to appear in the images herself. In the process, they evolved into an artist duo, with the two women now on an equal footing. Memymom's photographs are sensitive images with strong references to theatre and film. Past and present blend in pictures that continue to refer to childhood, but in which youthful innocence has given way to sensuality. Exhibition: Musée de la photographie, Charleroi, Belgium (22.09.2018 - 20.01.2019).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée de la photographie, Charleroi, Belgium, September 22, 2018 - January 20, 2019.

Chiefly illustrated.