Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout's 'Obsession Dietrich' at Galerie du Passage

Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout present 'Obsession Dietrich' at Galerie du Passage – Pierre Passebon in Paris, running until March 15, 2022. The exhibition draws from Pierre Passebon's collection of Marlene Dietrich images, which the artist duo reinterprets through digital photomontage created on iPhones. Nearly forty prints result from this process, inspired by Instagram's instantaneity and social media image-sharing. The works fragment Dietrich's face and gestures into serial, kaleidoscopic compositions that evoke chronophotography by Étienne-Jules Marey and stroboscopic flash aesthetics by Harold E. Edgerton. The artists emphasize Dietrich's iconic graphic strength, fine silhouette, and refined gestures, creating a plural and modern portrait through subtle variations in scale and superposition. The iterative, spiral-like sequences hypnotize the viewer, presenting Dietrich as eternal and ever-renewed.