The espace_L gallery proposes to bring together Catherine Rebois and Julien Spiewak, two artists who share a common reflection on the question of the body in photography. Catherine Rebois deconstructs the presence of the body — and of bodies — as objects in motion. Julien Spiewak constructs his images by combining bodies and interiors within the museum space.
The body fills Catherine Rebois’s photographs with its presence or its absence. In her work, certain parts of the body never completely come together, as if the body were always divided among the different images it projects. Organization and disorganization, multiplication of photographs forming groups within which a narrative folds and unfolds, reconsidering even the possibilities of the medium. Always nude, presented against a black or white background, the body, vulnerable, thus offers itself.
Julien Spiewak, for his part, integrates a fragment of a nude body into the interiors of museums and private collections around the world. This fragment is inserted with great subtlety, and sometimes even with humor. This displaced detail provokes a rereading of the overall image. It transforms, animates, coexists, and takes its place within history. Through this work, Julien Spiewak questions the long tradition of photography as a “document.” Many questions arise from his work: the place of the photographic document within the field of art, the primary functions of photography as a means of reproduction, and the reappropriation of objects and artworks as a creative process.
The espace_L gallery offers the public this reflection on the vast theme of the body, which becomes at once subject, object, and obsession.