faces flipped upside-down turn human features into alien-like creatures
marius weyers
all images © anelia loubser
drawn by the motivational words of author wayne dyer who said ‘if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change‘, cape town based photographer anelia loubser has completed a series of portraits that compel an usual and intent review. ‘alienation’ warps the perception of the human face by flipping it upside down, achieving weird and wonderful reinterpretations of the subject’s features. in this peculiar universe of oddly proportioned people, eyebrows become patches of whisker-like fur, arched forehead wrinkles visualize as wry smiles and scars describe distinctly disconnected noses.
richard antrobus
loubser wants the audience to ‘be introduced to the alienated being inside us all, where disconcerting beauty emerges. the work is on the one hand strangely aesthetic, on the other hand mysteriously eerie.’
gerrit loubser
gys de villiers
anna-mart van der merwe
shaleen surtie – richards
michael bosman
riette van der walt
nieke lombard
zolani mahola
jenny fisher
