De Openstaande vrouw (Woman Ajar)

Marcel Mariën
De Openstaande vrouw (Woman Ajar)

Photographs: Marcel Mariën

Publisher: Uitgeverij Loempia & Marcel Märien

111 pages

Year: 1985

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket. Original edition , 1985. Text in Flemish. Some wears and one little fold on the dust jacket without any tears or missed, otherwise in very good condition.

De Openstaande vrouw (Woman ajar in english), a late, largely forgotten photo book by Marcel Mariën, one of the key figures of Belgian post war surrealism. Representing the female body as fragmented and alienated by small objects, Mariën’s photographs balance between the private (amateurish) and the public (professional) and explores the fragile border between art and pornography. In addition, there is a sense of belatedness in them, which makes them particularly hard to label.