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DJIBY KEBE, Sans titreYear 2020
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
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. “