Katerina Jebb

Telegram from Marcel Duchamp to Francis Picabia, December 5th 1953, courtesy of Comité Picabia

photographer
on identity

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM

 

In 1991, the British multimedia artist Katerina Jebb was struck by a car while crossing the street in Paris. The accident left her right arm paralyzed. No longer able to hold a camera, she began making self-portraits with machines, primarily a high-resolution scanner. It is a testament to her resourcefulness that her creative output has expanded to include film and sculpture in addition to camera-less photography. Her new film work will be shown at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris this September. Entitled Ten Billion Illuminating Spirits Now Playing at a Cinema Near You, is part of The Impossible Wardrobe project in collaboration with Olivier Saillard of Musée Galliera Paris and the Festival of Autumn.
OLIVIER ZAHM — You recently made a film for…