Exhibition Stéphanie Solinas
Jouer le je

At a time when interest in literary nonfiction narratives focused on the personal and the self is growing, entering the work of Stéphanie Solinas (*1978, Paris) offers a chance to explore artistically those questions that run through literature. Who are we? How do we define ourselves? While our body is of course a physical reality, the fact remains that we are also made up of a personal story, a conscience, a collective memory, beliefs, spiritualities, and more.

For the past twenty years, alongside her artmaking, the artist has also been carrying out a series of explorations in the fields of psychology, law, and science. This side of her activity is grounded in four places, France, Iceland, Italy, and Silicon Valley in the United States. They are like four entry points for questioning identity in all its complexity, ranging from the visible to the invisible, the tangible to the transcendent. The artist’s work takes shape around these interrogations, where writing, photography, performance, and installation come together for her.

By turns, Jouer le je questions the role of the image in the construction of what we are, redefining the codes of the artistic tradition of the self-portrait and portraiture generally; and summons us to wager immortality at a reinvented roulette table, or even deposit a miracle which we witnessed or are the main figure in. Featuring the different mediums of Stéphanie Solinas’s work, the show invites us to experience the “I” while weaving together our identities in our relationship to others.