STATEMENT
Catherine Bodmer is a visual artist whose practice includes installation, photography and site-specific work. The idea of transformation is at the centre of her work, as well as the observation of the ordinary and banal aspects of life, which she seeks to infuse with a supplementary dimension. In her installations and site-specific works, she is mostly interested in activities related to cleaning the body and the space. Stressing the ambivalent values of cleanliness and purity, she questions their effects on the arrangement of our physical and mental spaces, our ideologies and utopias. More recently, Catherine Bodmer has been working with the means of photography to explore the space of the image and the imagination. Her attention has been drawn to places that evoke a sense of openness and speculation, but also of precariousness. For the artist, a place as much as an image represents a combination of variables where nothing remains stable. Comparable to the malleable materials in her installations, she conceives of the image as a “matter” that can be transformed. The manipulation of pixels, the alteration of certain elements in the image, as well as strategies of multiplication and variation of a subject serve a broader idea that highlights our existence’s vulnerability in relation with an increasingly complex and kaleidoscopic understanding of reality.