Her work is intense in color, fascinating in light and shadow, and her geometric composition is vivid. The most striking feature of the work is “the fascination in color”, the strong contrast between light and dark, reshaping memories and dreams by hiding characters behind branches, grass, clothes and more.

In Viviana’s two or three series, most of the photos will hide the model’s face, and only use the body to express something beyond the reality. Indeed, emotions can be revealed with the body alone, even beyond emotions, without the need to add a face to the bricks. Her work has super strong observability, because under the condition that her face is blocked, different people must look at the same piece of her work with different moods, and even have an unconscious and unconscious substitution. For example, I would think, what kind of person am I in? If I were her black model, what kind of pose would I pose to vent my emotions and desires hidden inside me?

At least in my opinion, her works can only be deepened in consciousness but not in words. The delicate emotions expressed by the body cannot be understood. Even if the color of the photo is richer and the characters are more prominent in the composition, the vent of emotion will always be in the dark of the photo.

My research on Vivienne Sassen：

• Skidmore, M. (2015). Magical Thinking: An interview with Viviane Sassen on the occasion of her show Pikin Slee. Available at: https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/magical-thinking-an-interview-with-viviane-sassen-on-the-occasion-of-her-show-pikin-slee.
• Gkiouzelis, d. (2013). Viviane Sassen/In And Out Of Fashion | Yatzer. Available at: https://www.yatzer.com/viviane-sassen-in-and-out-of-fashion
• https://www.yatzer.com/viviane-sassen-in-and-out-of-fashion
• https://www.vivianesassen.com/works/umbra/
• http://www.cnu.cc/works/120526
• http://she.xitek.com/visual/201706/22-227391.html
• http://www.sohu.com/a/327021070_611488