Sélection Kourtrajmé
DJIBY KEBE, Sans titreYear 2020
Medium Print on Arches paper
Dimensions 38 x 27 cm
Edition 5
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Djiby Kebe has developed a distinct body of work that celebrates the style, creativity and identity of the “banlieues”, and the marginalised subcultures that so often inspire the mainstream and pop-culture.
For the exhibition Jusqu’ici tout va bien, Kebe sought out haute couture creations from Virgil Abloh and Louis Vuitton used as references for fashion students. These lo-fi replicas then provided the basis for a fashion shoot with Kebe’s friends against a backdrop of rundown estates. Louise Darblay highlighted these images in Artreview as “attractive photographs attesting to (and reversing) the appropriation and commodification of ‘street culture’...”
However, Kebe’s photographs possess a quality beyond a conceptual exercise in redressing cultural appropriation. His images are not simply “fashion shoots”, they are portraits where his subjects express themselves through their choice of clothing, hair-style, pose, environment etc.
At Château La Coste, Kebe was touched by the site of Tadao Ando’s Chapelle and La Grande Croix Rouge by Jean-Michel Othoniel. However, the religious nature of these projects posed a dilemma for the artist which he found indicative of a more universal issue. Using himself as the subject, Kebe’s photograph presents a young man moved by beauty and spirituality, but suspicious and cynical of organised religion.
Artists Sélection Kourtrajmé
Name of the work Sans titre
Year 2020
Medium Print on Arches paper
Edition 5
Dimensions 38 x 27 cm
Signed Yes
Numbered Yes
Certificate of authenticity No
Artwork
“ It was interesting to me that the theme religion is found at Château La Coste. Tadao Ando’s Chapel and Jean-Michel Othoniel’s cross of red murano glass particularly struck me. I wanted to build a story around these works. To create a fiction around a young man who looks at the cross as he considers returning to a religion which he feels lost to. To create the work I used a revolving film. This has the ability to add effects, colours. The photo is very dark, we also see flashes of light, becauseI really wanted to create a tension between the characters and the cross. “