accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1960 in England. Lives and works in London.
Alison Jackson’s work explores the cult of celebrity and its impact on contemporary life. She uses lookalikes to make convincingly realistic photographs of celebrities in their privacy, making up scenes that cannot be witnessed. Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. Her work raises question such as “can we believe in what we see?”. Jackson comments on voyeurism and the seductive power of imagery, in a world saturated with visual information. She is a funny and thought-provoking commentator on the burgeoning phenomenon of contemporary celebrity culture.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
Ann Veronica Janssens was born in 1956 in the United Kingdom. She lives and works in Brussels.
Her artistic practice could be defined as an exploratory journey into the sensory experience of reality. Using different devices – installations, projections, immersive environments, urban interventions, sculptures – she invites the viewer to cross the threshold into a new sensory space.
In a register inspired by cognitive processes, her works tend toward a certain minimalism, underscoring the fleeting, ephemeral or fragile character of what she is proposing. Spatialization and distribution of light, radiant colour and translucent or reflective surfaces all serve to reveal the instability of our perception of time and space.
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Oda Jaune was born in 1979 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Currently, she lives and works in Paris.
Jaune studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Her work, very personal, shows individuals, objects and unidentified shapes in scenes at once poetic and disturbing. Jaune creates a unique world, which crisscrosses in a dreamlike atmosphere, with surrealist influences, retro iconography, socialist realism, Hollywood movies’ recollections, advertisements or ‘faits divers’.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1975 in Sweden. Lives and works in Malmö.
For his sculptures and installations, Michael Johansson uses all kinds of abandoned daily objects, from household items to suitcases and even cars. According to him: “Engaging directly with these objects, manipulating them, juxtaposing them against each other or representing them in a new context is my method of work.” Michael Johansson’s stacked installations can be found taking refuge in the unnoticed empty spaces scattered throughout dense urban sprawl. Whether the works are packed between two buildings or piled into abandoned closets, archways, doorjambs or windows, the artist carefully organizes disused objects to fill out the spaces perfectly. Johansson’s aim is to free objects from their function, creating pieces that are between deliberate exaggeration and apparently accidental situation, which will provoke feelings in the viewer of both familiarity and strangeness.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Rashid Johnson, born in 1977 in the United States, lives and works in New York.
Johnson belongs to a generation of young African-American artists that takes an extremely critical approach to the search for their cultural roots and identity. Photography is his favorite medium, but he also experiments with sound art, video or even sculpture.
His creations are aesthetically nonconformist and politically provocative. The artist uses different materials - such as black wax, wood, ceramic and everyday life objects like small bowls, books and plants – to create installations that combine elements of Afro-American history, pop culture, and references to recent art history.
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accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1932 in the USA.
Kenneth Josephson began photographing with the snapshot camera of his family in 1944 and bought his own professional equipment two years later. His early works focused on the act of picture making and offered playful commentary on photographic truth and illusion, using photography itself to question the veracity of the medium. Especially remarkable from this period is his Images within Images series. This work placed him on the forefront of Conceptual photography. Since then, Josephson has extended his output to include elegant images of India’s street life, a series of nudes, European landscapes and photographs of books folded into whimsical and sensuous forms.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1968 in France. Lives and works in Toulouse.
Alain Josseau is interested in new technologies and is directing his work towards a reflection on the attributes of the image. The images he uses as sources are coming from medias, film, video games, web, art history and contemporary history. Josseau’s creations encompass painting, drawing, video, installation and addresses major historical events like the attacks of the 9/11, the Kennedy assassination and the Iraq war.
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Photographer Susanne Junker was born in 1973 in Germany. She lives and works between Paris and Shanghai.
Junker has been working in the fashion business for almost 20 years; first as model and later behind the cameras. She dedicates herself both to commercial assignments and artistic work. The mixture of confrontation, identity and aesthetic questions characterize her photographs. «The perfect woman is a lie» (2006) is one of Junker’s self-portraits that question identity and transfiguration of the portrayal of women in our modern society. Far from the clichés of fashion industry, she tries to show another facet of women and beauty.
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