Christine Barbe
Corps & Paysages Mutations
For the first exhibition at the Inception Gallery, Christine Barbe displays a maturity which, if it looks like wisdom, brings her closer than ever to the question of experimentation in video and photography. It testifies to a new reflection: deep, detached and specific. Under its laconic title, the exhibition stands slightly at a distance from the mutation that was one of its modi operandi. For this exhibition, two fundamental themes are assimilated in Christine Barbe's discourse: the landscape and the constantly changing body.
The “Landscape-Mutation” series revolves around the re-creation of landscapes with an ambiguous character that questions the mark of man on nature. A synthesis of the environmental conversion that our contemporary landscape is undergoing. A telescoping of human activities on their environments, which ultimately generates a reflection on the future of metropolises. The mutation of his landscapes is done by the digitization of two antitheses, between realism and fantasy. However, the tiny border between its two entities precisely marks the concealment of economic, industrial and leisure activities.