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Valleygirls « Haters gonna hate »
Exposition des Valleygirls (Laetitia Gorsy/Anaïs Goupy)Zschocherche Strasse 2b, Leipzig, Allemagne15 avril 2017 [Valley Girl is a term invented in Los Angeles in the early 80’s depicting a stereotype of an upper-middle-class girl at ease with her femininity and her emotional wellbeing. The valley girl speaks another language, the ‘Valleyspeak’, an American dialect typical of Southern California, which many phrases come from surfer and skateboarding slangs. Scatterbrained and airheaded, she has a great interest in conspicuous consumption. Her personal accomplishment is related to materialism and entertainment (parties, sun tanning, shopping…). « VALLEY » is one form of the quintessence of artifice that may very well stink of conspiracy. It’s a truism…