Lynne Cohen
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This black and white image depicts a room filled with rows of mannequin torsos arranged on shelves and tables, with various manufacturing equipment and tools visible in the background. The overall composition creates a striking visual contrast, with the symmetrical arrangement of the identical figures standing out against the functional, industrial setting. The artwork appears to be commenting on mass production, standardization, and the dehumanization of the individual within a modern industrial context. The artist's intention behind this piece may be to explore themes of consumerism, identity, and the relationship between the human form and mechanized processes. ...
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Lynne Cohen
B.1944, American/CanadianFor more than thirty years, Lynne Cohen has photographed interior spaces without characters: laboratories, spas, waiting rooms or training rooms. Their decoration, often very kitschy, can be comical, even if it helps to reinforce their intriguing, even worrying aspect. The rigorous framing, at the same distance, and the light that highlights materials and colours give these images a constructed appearance. Focusing on the imaginary element of places, sometimes with ill-defined uses, Lynne Cohen suggests a social control that is exercised diffusely. ...
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In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc
RomainvilleFounded by Fabienne Leclerc in 2001, In Situ began in the 13th district of Paris alongside a group of galleries in rue Louise Weiss. After seven years in the 6th, the gallery moved to the Marais in November 2013, then to the Stalingrad district in January 2017. Since October 2019, In Situ - fabienne leclerc has moved into a new space in Romainville, accompanied by Air de Paris, gallery Jocelyn Wolff, gallery Sator the FRAC Ile-de-France as well as the Fiminco Foundation. The ambition of In Situ - fabienne leclerc is to promote young and emerging artists in France and internationally, and to support its established artists in the long term. The gallery strives to support and promote the work of its artists in the gallery, in associated museums and institutions, and to produce and edit artist catalogues and books. ...