FROM VICTUALS TO VISUALS

A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, the artist Catherine Kirchhoff hunts down images of today’s consumer society, and, more specifically, commercial representations of food. She knowingly digests them through her work, in order to deconstruct their banality and destabilise their self-evident smugness. Her universe in no way belongs to the sham or the misleading, but is instead that of the bare reality of products, stripped of marketing clichés and humorously combining consumer products with art.

To unleash vision and rediscover once more what it relishes, and to devour with gusto, yet with our eyes only…