Galerie Émilie Dujat presents an exhibition by feminist photographer Renée Jacobs. Femmes will be Jacobs’ first solo exhibition in Belgium and presents her most extensive collection to date. Featuring over 120 images spanning her illustrious career, Femmes captures Jacobs’ distinctive approach, characterized by unapologetic sensuality and authentic portrayals of women.
In the text accompanying the exhibit, Belgian author, poet and philosopher Véronique Bergen writes: “Sophistication and simplicity, naughty elegance and erotic thirst are woven in a scenography that loves contrasts and echoes between skin, clothes and stone, water. …Renée Jacobs offers us… mental scenes that ricochet on the imagination of those who contemplate them, who feel them. The interior or exterior décor, the recurring motifs (stairs, balustrade, statues…) are eroticized while the fetishization of the hair, body parts, underwear, drapes, textures allow the exploration of a game between revelation and concealment, between showing and stealing in the invisible. The journey of the senses to which Renée Jacobs invites us plunges us into the spray of a dreamlike poetry pulsed by the erotic conflagration.”
