ALLIE PILCHER
"Foie Gras and the Second Door on the Left" stages a woman in the space between the warm, curated glow of domestic performance and the sterile, unwelcoming light of something far more authentic. Through the rotting wooden doorframe of a 1920s apartment, the subject crouches behind submission and confronts a paradox of being, finding liminal comfort between Sunday’s trip to the market and the quiet rebellion of breaking routine. The color story underscores a disconnect: the comfort of domestic confinement against the charged uncertainty of defiance. This image holds a tension within a series of intertwined narratives circling the same trope of surrealist confinement.
Shot entirely through doorways, "Just Past" invites the viewer to linger at the threshold, peering into rooms where distinct vignettes unfold as different faces of the same story. Each frame stages the tensions I return to most: domestic femininity, confinement, and the surreal distortions of juxtaposition in a stolen moment. The doorways serve as both frame and barrier, holding the subject between the sterile comfort of suburbia and the quiet dissolution of routine.