About The Work
Artist and fashion photographer Collier Schorr has long been interested in how a body changes. For several years, she followed a model named Casil McArthur, who transitions over the course of Schorr’s project Untitled (Casil) from boyish girl to girlish boy, from artist’s muse to Bowie-like chameleon. Schorr remembers meeting Casil just as Casil had begun to start modeling as a young man rather than as a young woman. When Casil first began to transition, he worried about his future as a model. But the partnership with Schorr was perfectly legible within the fashion world, with fashions moving away from his/her clothing and toward the concept of they/them. Schorr explains that Casil’s fantasmatic appeal may have changed as he transitioned, but the mystery and the enigmatic quality that a model must project remained constant. The images are playful at times, melancholic at others, crossing and blurring lines as Schorr’s photo-archive offers a slow reveal.
Courtesy of Aperture
About Collier Schorr
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Photograph
19.00 x 13.34 in
48.3 x 33.9 cm
Signed and numbered by the artist on verso
About The Work
Artist and fashion photographer Collier Schorr has long been interested in how a body changes. For several years, she followed a model named Casil McArthur, who transitions over the course of Schorr’s project Untitled (Casil) from boyish girl to girlish boy, from artist’s muse to Bowie-like chameleon. Schorr remembers meeting Casil just as Casil had begun to start modeling as a young man rather than as a young woman. When Casil first began to transition, he worried about his future as a model. But the partnership with Schorr was perfectly legible within the fashion world, with fashions moving away from his/her clothing and toward the concept of they/them. Schorr explains that Casil’s fantasmatic appeal may have changed as he transitioned, but the mystery and the enigmatic quality that a model must project remained constant. The images are playful at times, melancholic at others, crossing and blurring lines as Schorr’s photo-archive offers a slow reveal.
Courtesy of Aperture
About Collier Schorr
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: The Artspace Group Show: Youth
- Art 101: Frieze Before the Fair: How One London Magazine Became an International Art Powerhouse
- News & Events: Who Does Madonna Collect? See Artists in the Material Girl's Private Collection
- News & Events: The Figure Is Back, Baby! At MoMA PS1's Greater New York, Artists Vanquish Zombie Formalism With People Art
- Interviews & Features: 9 Artists to Watch This February
- Edition of 30 and 2 Artist’s Proofs
- Paper Size: 19 x 13.34 inches Image Size: 18 x 12.75 inches
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