About the work

“A series of images rolls across my screen”: capture the world by flicking between images without attributing any value to what passes before our eyes. The artist here becomes spectator, a collector perhaps, gathering snippets of lives, events, photographs, commercials in the internet flux… these digital images made public and available to all which no longer allow any alternative than to experience the proximity of anonymous beings, which the artist blends into her own, her story, her images (photos of holidays, friends, places and landscapes visited). Evocative of a chaotic and saturated world where we no longer discern the remarkable because we see too much, where the intimate and the collective are related, Lenny Rébéré’s practice commences thus with accumulation.

Then comes the moment of recomposition, when the hand replaces the eye and mobilises the memory. The images are then laid on paper or canvas: for these orphan images, multiple, and deprived of a body, the time has come for synthesis and reincarnation.

Fragile, vibrant, like transparent layers, they never fully settle, but rather inhabit a singular and disconcerting space in-between where everything seems at once both near and far. Things, places, eras mingle, intertwine, overlap and contaminate each other, composing a third hybrid image, which owes as much to fiction as reality. A synthesis picture which behaves like a dream, by echoing, by fusing, and by successive impressions.

By Thibault Bissirier, October 2015

Date and country of birth

1994, FR>

About the artist

Lenny Rébéré (b.1994, Lyon) lives and works in Paris. Graduated from Ecole ESAIIG Estienne, Paris (2013); and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris (2018). Awards include the ENSBA prize of contemporary drawing (2018); the Lauréat du Prix Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne pour l'art contemporain (2017); and Lauréat de la bourse Diamond (2014). Select solo exhibitions include Infras, Isabelle Gounod Gallery, Paris (2019); Here & there, Isabelle Gounod Gallery, Paris (2016); Les Palaces temporaires, Atelier Dominique Gauthier, École des Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris (2016); Weltanschauung, galerie Gauche de l’Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris (2015); and Dessins, Studio Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris (2015). Select group exhibitions include Drawing Now, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Carreau du Temple, Paris (2018); The Big Mosaic, Ibrahim’s Khan, Paphos (2017); La Saga, Double V Gallery, Marseille (2017); YIA Art Fair – Brussels, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Brussels (2016); Humanizer, Chenaux Gallery, Paris (2015); and Estampes, Galeries des Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris (2015).