through July 28th 2012
Servane Mary works with an expanded notion of female portraiture, using printing on fabric and sculpture to create representations of famous chanteuses, activists and terrorists, culling material from various sources. Georges Didi-Huberman‘s Quand les Images Prennent Position (2009) greatly informs her thinking about the dualities in the images she uses: strength and timidity, temptation and prohibition, stability and transience; the image doubled by its dual readings. Furthermore by making diptychs, triptychs, or installations Mary also induces in viewers Didi-Huberman’s pensée associative: thinking that proceeds beyond the portrayed person to question behavior, gender roles and the private/social duality of notoriety. The title Orange Joyce is borrowed from Simone de Beauvoir.
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