Jimmy Robert
To the man who once told me to clean my hands because they were dirty, 2023

To the man who once told me to clean my hands because they were dirty resonates with a recent series of photographs made up of still lives titled Technique et Sentiment, in which the artist’s body is always shown in a fragmented way. Parts of the body are shown in action, performing gestures, or simply placed in context with other archival documents such as photographs, textiles or objects. The series thus focuses on gestures, objects and images, and draws particular attention to their meaning in the context of a grouping of visual images. For Robert, it is a question of reappropriating the image of his body through the chosen context.

Excerpt taken from the exhibition leaflet of “Pausing” and “Joie Noire”, the exhibition and the performance that took place at the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, in the spring of 2023.