Another Love Story
‘'Another Love Story' is based on a personal story; the artist presents a series of photographs and texts that reconstruct and replay the last months of her relationship with a man, named X for the sake of anonymity. Karla Hiraldo Voleau relates the bascule which took place during their history, namely the discovery of the double life of X. The revelation takes place during a telephone conversation (transcribed in the exhibition), between the artist and X’s other companion, herself unaware of the duplicity. What to do when one finds oneself dispossessed of its history? Karla Hiraldo Voleau decides to reappropriate this narrative, by rephotographing all the captured moments of her relationship, identically, with the help of an actor she hires to play X’s double. The choice of a double is at the same time a means to protect herself legally, but also a fabulous device allowing the artist to emancipate herself from her former lover. Both performer and photographer, Karla Hiraldo Voleau, offers a mise en abyme of her own story and makes palpable the social codes attached to couples. 'Another Love Story' proposes a reflection on the photographic medium and its place as a silent witness of our lives. Here, the image fails to capture the truth of a relationship and only bends to our desires, to our wishes, to expose the feeling of love even if it remains elusive.’ – Clothilde Morette, curator
