Amigxx is exhibiting for the first time in Geneva the works of Fernando de la Rocque and Catherine Rebois, centered around a reflection on identity.
Catherine Rebois has documented the process of a person’s metamorphosis in her new series, Entêtement — 7 images, 70×70 cm, black and white, silver gelatin prints on baryta paper.
In this new photographic work, Catherine Rebois refers to experience as re-cognition.
Through an act that might seem ordinary today, she seeks to convey how deeply the question of identity permeates our existence. She interrogates the image itself, while also drawing upon a certain photographic potential. The image struggles to define itself; the environment appears, then becomes blurred — nothing is stable, nothing resolved.
It is experience that leads, that eventually constructs or deconstructs. This is a fragmentary grasp and an exaltation of the search for meaning. The question remains: to what extent are we “strangers to ourselves,” as Julia Kristeva puts it, for strangeness lies nowhere else but within us. It is about being attentive to the Other that slumbers inside us, slipping between presence and absence.