IMG_5484 Exhibition Katerina Jebb., autor Hustelou / Michèle

aterina Jebb deus ex machina BORN, 1962, UNITED KINGDOM. LIVES AND WORKS IN PARIS, FRANCE. Katerina Jebb is a self-taught artist working in various mediums. She started with experimental photography before developing work based on photomontage. Her oeuvre has been presented in many exhibitions and galleries : the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) ; "The Warhol Look", Barbican Art Gallery (London, 1998) ; "Addressing the Century", Hayward Gallery (London) ; "La Couture à L’Oeuvre", Musée Galliera (Paris, 2011) ; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, "L’Inventaire de Balthus" (2014) ; "The Written Trace", Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York, 2015). From Jacques Réattu onwards, the reassuring ramparts of the Grand Priory have embraced works by artists who are conquered and fascinated by the power of this enduring site. Katerina Jebb is among those who have been moved by its appeal. Crossing the Réattu’s threshold in 2008, she was carried away by a world of Christian Lacroix’s creation. The sensuality of textiles, materials and colours came together in a glorious symphony at the hands of the Arles couturier, whose creative vision took possession of the whole of the museum’s exhibition space. Since then, the works of Katerina Jebb have continued to gain meaning from the museum, most recently in a spectacular series of eight photographs entitledUntitled Icon - 1 to 8. In this work, she explores the singular aesthetic of a visual quest in which textiles and bodies mingle, composing mysterious floating idols wearing Christian Lacroix dresses. Her exclusive use of a digital scanner appropriates a tool intended for industrial reproduction to lay down images that are free from one of art’s greatest advances: perspective. In Katerina Jebb’s work, the idea of three dimensional reproduction gives way to a hyperrealism of material and flesh. Kristin Scot Thomas ( Digital scan on paper)