Loctin专门为舞蹈演员设计了每条裙子的形状和颜色，而迪兹则负责将她的模特置于从纽约街头到巴黎卢浮宫的标志性场景中。Loctin的纸作品种类繁多，从类似传统芭蕾舞短裙的到复杂折叠的实验形状。Dez分享说，这个项目分为两个阶段：第一个阶段是由专业芭蕾舞演员穿着Loctin的作品在工作室拍摄，然后是一个全球范围的努力，拍摄舞者和外面的服装。“纸张是一种易碎的材料，所以我们决定将不可能变为可能。”无论我们面对的是什么元素，水(雨)，风，我们都想证明我们是无限的。
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sed artists Melika Dez and Pauline Loctin met in January 2018 and decide to combine their imaginations in a creative collaboration. The result, PLI.Ē Project, fuses Dez’s skills as a movement photographer with Loctin’s expertise in paper art, and showcases dancers around the world wearing hand-folded paper costumes. Loctin specifically formed each dress’s shape and color palette to the dancer who would be modeling it, and Dez worked to situate her models in ico
nic settings from the streets of New York City to the Louvre Museum in Paris. Loctin’s paper creations range from resembling traditio
nal ballet tutus to intricately folded experimental shapes.Dez shares that the project came together in two phases: first as a studio shoot with professio
nal ballet dancers wearing Loctin’s creations, and later as a worldwide endeavor photographing dancers and costumes outside. “Paper can be a fragile material to work with and that is exactly why we decided to make the impossible, possible. No matter which element we would be co
nfronted to, water (rain), wind, we wanted to show that we are limitless.”The PLI.Ē Project photographs are on view in Mo
ntreal through November 4, 2018, and the duo hopes to shoot a second series of the work and eventually publish a photo book. You can see more from Loctin on Instagram and Facebook and from Dez on Instagram. (via fubiz)
