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Jasmine Bertusi
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8/2/2012

Jasmine Bertusi

JAS Gallery, Paris

This Side Up The artist is fascinated by cities, photographing them in myriad ways and manipulating them to create fresh perspectives. The works on show are what she describes as "architectural portraits revisited", a series of fresh examinations of Rome, Paris, New York and Beirut.


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Opened little more than a year ago, the JAS Gallery is dedicated to providing a French showcase for artists who have already forged a reputation abroad. They include Jasmine Bertusi, whose talents were on show in the Italian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Jasmine Bertusi works in photography as well as video and installations. Her work is appearing at the JAS Gallery with a photographic exhibition entitled This Side Up.

Born in 1979 in Lausanne, Switzerland, Jasmine Bertusi lives and works between Italy and the USA. She is fascinated by cities, photographing them in myriad ways and manipulating them to create fresh perspectives. The works on show at the JAS Gallery are what she describes as “architectural portraits revisited”, a series of fresh examinations of Rome, Paris, New York and Beirut.

Architectural portraits revisited

At first glance, we see objects that might be spaceships, metaphysical constructions or strange sculptures that seem to float in the sky, as though hanging there. These are in fact buildings that have featured in Jasmine Bertusi’s life, or else famous monuments such as the Cupola of St Peter’s Basilica, the Coliseum and the Roman Forum in Rome, the Arche de la Défense and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the New York Plaza, and so on.

Training her questing lens on these architectural creations, Jasmine Bertusi then reconfigures them according to plans she designs in her head, reproducing some details photographed. “I build my photographs just like an architect. I reworked over 700 images to obtain the 25 works that go to make up the Roman series,” she explains.

Yet her photographs question ideas of symmetry in a way that may be anarchic, improbable and dissonant, as if seeking to subvert the conventional rules of construction. Freeing them from any expression of context, she lightens the monuments, stripping them of the strength and power that they may represent.

They thus revel in their imagined reflection, guilelessly afloat within a fragile balance, beyond time and space, where they exercise dominion over nothing and nobody... save for those who gaze upon the work of Jasmine Bertusi.

Preview on February the 9th, from 7pm

JAS Gallery
17 rue des Saints-Pères - Paris
Open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 2pm to 7pm
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