Jeanne Tasté
Photography / Painting / Drawing / Writing
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Born in 1999, Jeanne Tasté graduated from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR Mulhouse) in June 2024.
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My visual practice revolves around various media (photography, oil painting, drawing, and writing) that question the image.
I work with fragmented forms drawn from details of my everyday environment—most often urban, colorful, and fairly banal (for example, a car rearview mirror). These elements are photographed with my smartphone during daily wanderings. The tight framing creates a distance from the original object and its primary function. It becomes material for thought, an “imaginary texture of the real*.” Each detail is then translated into different formats (small, medium, large) through painting or drawing.
Each produced image is considered a self-contained entity, like a frozen, floating moment. It is not so much the representation of the image that interests me, but what it generates in terms of forms, light, colors, projections, sensations, and imaginaries in the viewer. The question of perception—and its plurality through processes of translation linked to the choice of medium—is also something I seek to explore.
The juxtaposition of multiple images and paintings during exhibition allows me to create resonances between different moments through formal correspondences, thus generating a new visual and poetic wandering.
*MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice, L’Œil et l’Esprit, Gallimard, Paris, 1985, p. 24.
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Exhibitions (2024):
Art/Corps, Le Séchoir (20.09–20.10.2024), Mulhouse
Mulhouse Photography Biennial (BPM), Mondes Impossibles, 6th edition (13.09–13.10.2024)
Ouvrir le lieu (21.06.2024), Synagogue of Dornach, Mulhouse
Group exhibition Un essaim dans l’orage (17.01–20.01.2024), La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse
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Photo credits
Untitled, oil on canvas, 152 × 14 cm, 2024. Photo credit: Ji Pyo Hong
Traversées, oil on canvas, diptych, 232 × 90 cm, 2024. Photo credit: Aimée Le Briéro
Portrait. Photo credit: Tobias Canales and HEAR
Graduation installation view, June 2024. Photo credit: Jeanne Tasté
