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EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY 745 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10151 Tel 212 750 7070 Fax 212 688 4848 PRESS RELEASE Contact: Ms. Hannah Thunhorst [email protected] VALÉRIE BELIN PAINTED LADIES 2 March – 31 March 2018 Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York is pleased to announce an exhibition of Valérie Belin’s most recent series, Painted Ladies, for the artist’s fourth exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition of eight large-scale black-and-white photographs will be on view 2 – 31 March 2018. Over the past two decades, Valérie Belin has created a body of work that challenges and manipulates the indexical nature of the photographic surface to explore ideas of beauty, artifice, and illusion. Painted Ladies continues Belin’s fascination with the human body as a powerful vessel for abstraction and projected meaning. Inspired by early twentieth-century expressionist painters, Belin collaborated with make- up artist Isamaya Ffrench to paint models with various brushes in the manner of initiatory tribal rituals. These brushes lend their names to the individual titles of the works, such as Lady Round Brush, Lady Pastel, and Lady Inpainting, and also mirror the equivalent digital retouching tools found in the image-processing software that Belin employs. Belin has stated that her work originates from painting. In these works, the models’ faces are metamorphisized and reduced to canvas-like surfaces, whose expressions have been assigned and actualized by the artist. The pictorial quality of each image, abstracted beyond portraiture, is created by the painterly interventions on the models before the photograph is taken and the digital processing of the images after the photography occurs. This interrogation regarding the nature of the image, the process involved, and what the viewer is actually looking at, creates a sense of uncertainty that questions the power of surface as a signifier. The affected stylization of Belin’s subjects carries a conspicuous veneer of artificiality that mirrors our culture’s mainstream acceptance of staged and hyper-edited images as reality. Presenting these meta-clichés in a larger- than life scale, the series reframes the recurring questions of the relations between photography and painting, figuration and abstraction, and reality and fiction. Valérie Belin (b. 1964, Boulogne-Billancourt, France) has exhibited extensively both domestically and abroad. One-person exhibitions of the artist’s work have been held at the Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux (2017-2018); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (2013); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (2009); Musée d’Orsay, Paris (2008); Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris (2008); and Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2007) among others. In 2017, the artist’s first retrospective in Asia travelled to Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing; Shanghai Center of Photography; and the Chengdu Museum, China. Work by the artist is included in museum collections worldwide, including Centre

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EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY

745 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10151 Tel 212 750 7070 Fax 212 688 4848

PRESSRELEASE Contact:Ms.HannahThunhorst [email protected]

VALÉRIEBELINPAINTEDLADIES2March–31March2018Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York is pleased to announce anexhibition of Valérie Belin’smost recent series,Painted Ladies,fortheartist’sfourthexhibitionatthegallery.Theexhibitionofeightlarge-scaleblack-and-whitephotographswillbeonview2–31March2018.Overthepast twodecades,ValérieBelinhascreatedabodyofworkthatchallengesandmanipulatestheindexicalnatureofthe

photographic surface to explore ideas of beauty, artifice, and illusion. Painted Ladies continuesBelin’s fascination with the human body as a powerful vessel for abstraction and projectedmeaning.Inspiredbyearlytwentieth-centuryexpressionistpainters,Belincollaboratedwithmake-up artist Isamaya Ffrench to paintmodelswith various brushes in themanner of initiatory tribalrituals. These brushes lend their names to the individual titles of theworks, such asLady RoundBrush,Lady Pastel, andLady Inpainting, and also mirror the equivalent digital retouching toolsfoundintheimage-processingsoftwarethatBelinemploys.Belin has stated that her work originates from painting. In these works, the models’ faces aremetamorphisizedandreducedtocanvas-likesurfaces,whoseexpressionshavebeenassignedandactualized by the artist. The pictorial quality of each image, abstracted beyond portraiture, iscreatedbythepainterlyinterventionsonthemodelsbeforethephotographistakenandthedigitalprocessingofthe imagesafterthephotographyoccurs.This interrogationregardingthenatureofthe image, the process involved, and what the viewer is actually looking at, creates a sense ofuncertainty that questions the power of surface as a signifier. The affected stylization of Belin’ssubjects carries a conspicuous veneer of artificiality that mirrors our culture’s mainstreamacceptanceofstagedandhyper-editedimagesasreality.Presentingthesemeta-clichésinalarger-than life scale, the series reframes the recurringquestionsof the relationsbetweenphotographyandpainting,figurationandabstraction,andrealityandfiction.Valérie Belin (b. 1964, Boulogne-Billancourt, France) has exhibited extensively both domesticallyand abroad. One-person exhibitions of the artist’s work have been held at the Institut CulturelBernard Magrez, Bordeaux (2017-2018); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); the Multimedia ArtMuseum,Moscow(2013);PeabodyEssexMuseum,Salem,MA(2009);Muséed’Orsay,Paris(2008);MaisonEuropéenede laPhotographie,Paris (2008);andHuisMarseille,Amsterdam,Netherlands(2007) among others. In 2017, the artist’s first retrospective in Asia travelled to Three ShadowsPhotography Art Centre, Beijing; Shanghai Center of Photography; and the Chengdu Museum,China. Work by the artist is included in museum collections worldwide, including Centre

EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY

745 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10151 Tel 212 750 7070 Fax 212 688 4848

GeorgesPompidou,Paris;Muséed’artModernedelaVilledeParis;KunsthausZürich;LosAngelesCountyMuseum;MuseumofModernArt,NewYork;andtheSanFranciscoMuseumofModernArt.BelinwastherecipientofthePrixPictetin2015.In2017,shewasmadeanofficerofFrance’sOrdredesArtsetdesLettres.BelinlivesandworksinParis.

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