Escape Artist

Magazine DOUBLE, Fall 2008, Issue 16

Pages 10

Benoit Pailley, Photographer

Andrea Bianconi, Artist

Alice Bertay, Stylist

Patricia Regan, Hair/Make up

Marilou Daube, Assistant stylist

Benoit Pailley presents this collaboration with Italian artist Andrea Bianconi and stylist Alice Bertay.

With this assignment for Double, Pailley brought to life Bianconi's art practice of sculpture, collage and painting. Bianconiinventscostume accessories in the manner ofhis work that reveal his preoccupations(paranoia, fantasi and escapism) while Bertay stryles hiscast of characters. 

Like his sculptures, Bianconi, now the subject, is posed in a gallery environment of gray floor and white wal, while Pailley assumes the role of artist and manipulates his form/model into contortions that are surreal, humorous and bizarre.

Unmonumental

Magazine DOUBLE, spring 2009 , Issue 17

Pages 14

Benoit Pailley, Photograher & Set design

Ines Fendri, Stylist

Tasked with the editorial assignement from Double Magazine to develop a jewelry feature titled "Unmonumental"for March 2009, Benoit Pailley was campbell to engage with the economic and political turmoil in this moment.

Combining jewelry with found objects painted black, Pailley creates minimalist dioramas and places them in a gallery setting.These meticulous installations frame a story of the tension in the war and religious, and the fragility of freedom and human nature.

These striking imagesworks on two levels; they symbolize a tumultuous moment in history with dark humor and on a graphic level, these installation showcase unique designs of contemporary jewelry from the most prestigious houses.

L' Intrus

Magazine DOUBLE, Fall 2007, Issue 12

Pages 12

Benoit Pailley, Photographer & Set Designer

Alice Bertay, Stylist

Marilou Daube, Assistant Stylist

Drawing inspiration from the last Supper and building a set in homage to René Magritte's paintings,

Pailley creates a surreal environment for fashion.

Façades

Magazine SLEEK, Winter 2006/7, Issue 13

Theme Street/Elite

Pages 14

Silver Lead Award 2006 for best Feature Architecture/Still Life in Germany Press

Benoit Pailley, Photographer &Set Designer

Alice Bertay, Stylist

Marilou Daube, Assistant Stylist

Inspired by the constant motion and change of New York street life,

Pailley first captures the energy of the ubiqutious construction, a ballet of scaffolding and façades. He re-enacts this interplay in his studio where he creates an installation of hangers that reflect the precarious balance/imbalance of daily life.

The Wall

Magazine SLEEK, Winter 2007/8, Issue 17

Theme : Hide /Seek

Pages 16

Benoit Pailley, Photographer & Set designer

Alice Bertay, Stylist

Marilou Daube, Assistant Stylist

The Stubborn protagonist is the wall - a border.

It is constructed everywhere like the Berlin of the past.

We thought it was destroyed, but in fact it has moved elsewhere.

It goes to places where hatred prevails.

USA/Mexico, Israel/Palestine, Morocco/Western Sahara.

The wall has wheels and history repeats itself.

The clothing on the wall belongs perhaps to those who have left their lives behind.

All that remains is a shadow trace of a murderous border drawn in fencing wire,''a chiken lattice''.

La Pisseuse

Magazine SLEEK, Spring 2007, Issue 14

Theme : Solid / Liquid

14 pages

Benoit Pailley, Photographer & Set Designer

Alice Bertay, Stylist

Marilou Daube, Assistant Stylist

A dress hangs on a wood and metal frame.

Not more than a whisper of silk, maybe the object will melt away, like rain drops.

There is a bucket that waits underneath, just in case.

Puritaine .

Magazine SLEEK , Fall 2007, Issue 16

Theme : Dirty

Pages 16

Benoit Pailley, Photographer & set Designer.

Alice Bertay , Stylist

Marilou Daube, Assistant Stylist

The Heroine of this morality play on the theme of Pure/ Dirty is a long-limbed mannequin.

Her accessories, the iron mask and the matches of the stake attest to this. To clean, she uses a wet sponge to eliminate the enormous stain of the electric chair.

Dound in a black haute couture dress, our lady pleads with us who will judge and be judged.