Exterface
Exterface are two 23-year-old French artists, Julien and Stephane, who have united to create their own company. They produce poetic pictures of masculinity and the male form - its desires and meanings. Psychologically charged, Exterface push their models to show a hidden side. They attempt to manipulate the male - exposing him, stripping him until he is lost between coloured light and darkness. The man isn't a man anymore; he becomes an indecent, urban, disguised, videogenic creature.
Exterface's iconography is sexually charged, sometimes homoerotic, but always expresses an interior duality. Each series tells a story as a fresco where the plot is 'all is not what it seems'. Julien and Stephane invite us to attend a spectacle where the model seems palpable yet somehow unreal.
More than photographers, Julien and Stephane are directors, painters and scenario writers. They play with artistic currents to prove that human nature hasn't revealed all its secrets just yet.
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French artists Julien and Stéphane alias Exterface tell mysterious and erotic stories: A businessman who's wearing leather when he's out of office. Sensual telephone sex. Longing for the boyfriend. Closely observed looks and gestures make their photo spreads in THE THING HE LOVES look like short movies. Unlike Pierre & Gilles the pictures from Exterface are not kitschy but full of atmosphere. Click here to see more!
Stephan Niederwieser is author of more than twenty books - novels, short stories and erotic guides. After working for different German publishing companies, he is now the new Head of the photobook department at Bruno Gmünder Publishing.