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Valérie Belin’s Hypermodern Portraiture

In a new show, “Modern Royals”, Belin presents a series of portraits of fictional nobility, blending time to create images that seem at once modern and dated.

Portrait of Ellen MD (Modern Royals) (20111001) © Valérie Belin, courtesy of the artist and Nathalie Obadia Gallery

What is the purpose of a portrait in the year 2022? At a time when cell phone cameras are omnipresent, there’s hardly anyone who ...

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