Jasmine Bertusi
dal 8/2/2012 al 23/3/2012
Segnalato da
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.
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
Free admission