The Barefoot Promise is a study on foot fetishism trough set photographs of Western films. From Hollywood Golden Age to French Nouvelle Vague, the motif of the foot reveals the hidden fantasies and gender norms conveyed by European and American filmmakers.
Structured as a film itself, the book is the first printed version of the Promise of the Screen, a screening device developed by Pierre Leguillon since 2007 to look at the marginal aspects of cinema…
An artist’s book published by Triangle Books, and a “hidden exhibition”, in the drawers of a print cabinet…
“The artist Pierre Leguillon makes the book one of his privileged formats. He puts in perspective the techniques of manufacture and diffusion of the images in with regard to a cultural and artistic history. He invites to the discernment of the images constantly to reinterpret in their materiality, their destination and their value.”
Jeanne Quéheillard
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