Fabiola Jean Louis - Fine Artist and Photographer

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Haitian-born fine artist Fabiola Jean Louis has received critical acclaim for her exquisite 18th Century-inspired life-sized dresses sculpted entirely of paper. Through art photography that is at once haunting, moody and magical, she reimagines the paper dresses as portraits that rewrite the history of women of color, juxtaposing their past circumstances of subservience with sovereignty, while simultaneously exposing that which often goes unseen

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