Project Description
Nathalie Daoust’s latest project, Tokyo Hotel Story, continues her exploration of female sexuality and subversion of gender stereotypes. Spending several months living in Alpha In, one of the biggest “love hotels” in Japan. Daoust made intimate portraits of 39 women in hotel rooms, surrounded by the specialist equipment and dressed in the regalia that define their trade. Daoust believes numerous challenges still exist in terms of confronting deep-rooted stereotypes of gender-roles. Her work helps her to delve beyond taboos while showing the universal human desire to escape reality and create fantasy worlds that often oscillate between dream, reality and perversion.
Exhibitions (Excerpt)
2011, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, Canada
2011, International photography festival F/Stop Leipzig, Germany
2010, Aceartinc Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2009, Gallery Paris, Sofia , Bulgaria
2009, Jack Man Gallery, VIC, Australia
2009, International Photographic Gathering, Bulgaria
2009, The Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia
2009, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009, Gallery 44 - Centre for Contemporary Photography (vitrine), Toronto, Canada
2009, Caixa Cultural Sé, Galeria Octogonal e Floribela, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Publications (Excerpt)
2010, Vision magazine, China
2010, Eyemazing magazine, The Netherlands
2010, Japanzine magazine, Japan
2010, Dp Arte Fotográfica, Portugal
2010, Silvershotz magazine, Australia
2010, Drome magazine, Italy
