ホテル Hotel is a photo installation project consisting of over 3000+ still shots, here some selected snapshots. [*For films see separate category.]
The project was created developing over time a small group of semi-fictional characters, “Superstars”, personified in form of small-scale clay puppets, in reference to the voyeurism that exists when intimate photographs that are labelled with personal names of the people depicted, who are personally unknown to the viewers, collectors or people marketing such photographs.
Their characters are amalgams of characteristics from people I know personally or interacted with casually without knowing them deeper, my own, and situations that happened to me during the creation of the puppets, translated into situations of more importance in the life of a human being; for this reason, the project contains an autobiographical element.
These details that over time formed a fictive narrative surrounding the Superstars are not essential to know when viewing the project in the exhibited formats.
ホテル Hotel – Laila with Alexander (2016)
Josiane Keller “Laila with Alexander” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – “Edie by a wall with right arm behind her head” (2017)
Josiane Keller “Edie by a wall with right arm behind her head” (2017)
ホテル Hotel – Chiaki and Starfish making out (2016)
Josiane Keller “Chiaki and Starfish making out” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Vincent on the junkyard (2017)
Josiane Keller “Vincent on the junkyard” (2017)
ホテル Hotel – Billy in the hospital bed 32 (2016)
Josiane Keller “Billy in the hospital bed 32” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Viola on the beach 4 (2016)
Josiane Keller “Viola on the beach 4” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – glorious ChoCho (2016)
Josiane Keller “glorious ChoCho” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – stray dog 15 (2016)
Josiane Keller “stray dog 15” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Larry and Starfish on the beach 4 – Larry’s tattoo (2017)
Josiane Keller “Larry and Starfish on the beach 4 – Larry’s tattoo” (2017)
ホテル Hotel – Josiane Keller – Molly outside at night 13 (2016)
Josiane Keller “Molly outside at night 13” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Molly in the Cafe lifting her hair 2 (2017)
Josiane Keller “Molly in the Cafe lifting her hair 2” (2017)
ホテル Hotel – cold beer – wine – pop 9 (2016)
Josiane Keller “cold beer – wine – pop 9” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – contact sheet family visit (2016)
Josiane Keller “contact sheet family visit” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Josiane Keller – Starfish is back 14 – Starfish and ChoCho 3 (2017)
Josiane Keller “Starfish is back 14 – Starfish and ChoCho 3” (2017)
ホテル Hotel – Orlando memorial evening 4 – Chiaki, Billy and Larry (2016)
Josiane Keller “Orlando memorial evening 4 – Chiaki, Billy and Larry” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Billy with Aztec feather crown 4 (2016)
Josiane Keller “Billy with Aztec feather crown 4” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Edie sleeping 3 (2017)
Josiane Keller “Edie sleeping 3” (2017)
ホテル Hotel – dad holding Alexander (2016)
Josiane Keller “dad holding Alexander” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Molly and Chiaki sitting in a tree on the graveyard 2 (2016)
Josiane Keller “Molly and Chiaki sitting in a tree on the graveyard 2” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Edie sleeping (2017)
Josiane Keller “Edie sleeping” (2017)
ホテル Hotel – Sebastiao Com’Sal by the mountain lake 4 (2016)
Credit Photo Courtesy of Sebastiao Com’Sal “Sebastiao Com’Sal by the mountain lake 4”
ホテル Hotel – Molly in underwear on her bed talking to Starfish 5 (2016)
Josiane Keller “Molly in underwear on her bed talking to Starfish 5” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – a sword and a rose (2016)
Josiane Keller “a sword and a rose” (2016)
ホテル Hotel – Vincent is showing off his tattoo 2 (2016)
Josiane Keller “Vincent is showing off his tattoo 2” (2018)
ホテル Hotel – Starfish on the sofa 3 (2016)
Josiane Keller “Starfish on the sofa 3” (2016)