Mari Katayama - Home Again
The exhibition
All bodies of Mari Katayama
Born with a congenital disease that forced her to partially amputate her limbs as a child, the Japanese artist Mari Katayama uses this body as the starting point for a plastic exploration. In the body of photographic work she has produced since 2009, shown at the MEP, she tends to stage herself, seeming to rub her image against that exhibited by the advertising industry and the norm of its models. But from the photographic montage that magazine imagery induces, Katayama brings the work of cutting back into the field. Thus, her large Shell print with its gleaming decorum is reminiscent of a Hamilton-style pop collage. And the scissors, which she inherited early from the need to make her own clothes, are never far away, as in Shadow Puppet #014, where she shows herself sewing a cocoon-like garment.
Extract from the article by Tom Laurent published in the n°98 of the issue Art Absolument.
Born with a congenital disease that forced her to partially amputate her limbs as a child, the Japanese artist Mari Katayama uses this body as the starting point for a plastic exploration. In the body of photographic work she has produced since 2009, shown at the MEP, she tends to stage herself, seeming to rub her image against that exhibited by the advertising industry and the norm of its models. But from the photographic montage that magazine imagery induces, Katayama brings the work of cutting back into the field. Thus, her large Shell print with its gleaming decorum is reminiscent of a Hamilton-style pop collage. And the scissors, which she inherited early from the need to make her own clothes, are never far away, as in Shadow Puppet #014, where she shows herself sewing a cocoon-like garment.
Extract from the article by Tom Laurent published in the n°98 of the issue Art Absolument.
When
03/09/2021 - 24/10/2021