Charlotte Abramow

Charlotte Abramow, Find Your Clitoris II, 2017. Pigment inkjet print on archival paper, © Charlotte Abramow.

Through raw subjects and thought-through images, Charlotte Abramow universalizes the individual, often even the intimate. This 28-year-old has a feminine perspective on women - and claims a gender perspective. She shows, even imposes, what is invisible, internalized representations.

Charlotte Abramow is a female photographer and is proud of this identity. Female, she is in her experience, she is in her art, and she is in the eyes of others. Born in Belgium in 1993, she discovered photography very early on, and never left it behind.

She revealed herself at the age of 24 with her project "The Real Boobs", celebrating the diversity of breasts, then directing clips for singer Angèle. In 2020, her Little Manual of sex education, which demystifies sexuality in images and explains consent, is distributed to 75,000 young people by Netflix.

Charlotte Abramow, Find Your Clitoris III, 2017. Pigment inkjet on archival paper, © Charlotte Abramow.

Charlotte Abramow fights "against the classic stereotypes associated with women: their (in) capacities, their ambitions, their independence ..." Convinced that "intimacy is political", she makes visible the social constructions suffered or internalized. To the question "Is it legitimate to speak of a female gaze in photography? She replies bluntly: there is a feminine gaze, since you elevate and consider women in a different way than men. This feminine gaze is even particularly necessary in photography, “mostly created by men for men”, and therefore limited.

However, if she tackles the subject of gender inequalities, Charlotte Abramow does so with humor, in often absurd or dreamlike scenes.

In her videos, her books, as in the photographs exhibited at the Fisheye Gallery as part of the "Elles x Paris photo" event, she places the human at the center of her work, with a refined and colorful poetry.

Dramatized, but all the more raw, her images play between reality and fantasy, like "inventive flashlights aimed at a subject". The 2017 "Find Your Clitoris" series is a pink and fleshy universe of suggestive shapes and evocative close-ups, never explicit, where we guess female attributes and bodies, in a "visual exploration of pleasure".