FOR THE RECORD - Week Five

FOR THE RECORD.

week one		week two		week three		week four		week five		week six		week seven
Jeff McLane & Stefani Greenwood	\|	Ava Alamshah & Suzanne Goldish	\|	Ignacio Genzon & Rena Kosnett	\|	Marie Mingoia & Alex Lewin	\|	Gilda Davidian & Sidonie Loiseleux	\|	Katie Shapiro & Tiffany Roohani	\|	Michelle Young Lee

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Week Five

Gilda Davidian & Sidonie Loiseleux

Sidonie Loiseleux: The natural talent you'd like to be gifted with.

Gilda Davidian: I wish I could dance – like really, really dance. Like jaw-droppingly amazing other-worldly kind of superpower dance. I also wish I could write books.

SL: Your favorite bird.

GD: As many of my friends (and people who have visited my home) know, I love birds of all kinds. It's more about flight than species for me, but if I absolutely had to narrow it down, I have to say that I am most fond of little, colorful birds with fat heads.
I had a bird fly into my head once. That was scary.

SL: Your favorite occupation.

GD: Can I pick more than one? Fairy godmothers, astronauts, and midwives. But I think anyone who is doing what they love to do AND making a living doing it has it pretty damn good.

SL: What you hate the most.

GD: Irresolvable situations; being lied to; waiting. I hate waiting.

SL: How does your love of reading translate into your photographic practice?

GD: I am deeply inspired by literature - through storytelling - and am fueled by the chasm between written and visual language. I am interested in the use of imagery as metaphor and think of my photographs as short stories, turned inside out.

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Gilda Davidian: Your favorite food and drink.

Sidonie Loiseleux: Raspberries, tomatoes, cheese, shellfish, croissant, pain au chocolat, blanquette de veau, bœuf bourguignon, macarons, bread, cherries, figs, citrus…I'll stop here because if I continue, the list will be too long. In other words, I do not like brain and tongue. My favorite drink is a glass of good red Burgandy.

GD: Your favorite color and flower.

SL: My favorite color at the moment is yellow. Favorite flowers are peonies and lilacs for their smell, which reminds me of where I grew up.

GD: Your main fault.

SL: Being too tolerant. Giving too much of my time to little things, which can become distractions, instead of focusing on what's important.

GD: Your favorite occupation.

SL: To sit at a terrace of a coffee place in Paris during the summer with my friends, talking about everything and watching (and commenting on) people passing by.
Also, to cook for others. Cooking calms me down.

GD: Where do you turn to for inspiration in your practice?

SL: It varies. I sometimes get inspiration from a sentence, words that I found while reading or listening to radio. For example, not so long ago, I heard on radio the term "permanent cavity". I loved it and started doing some research. Now, I've been working on a new project around this term. I also feed my imagination by watching movies. A lot of them.

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