Iseult Labote
Urban Landscapes - Serie Urbanus N° XXV
1999

About the Item

Born 1959, Geneva, Switzerland Vanna Karamaounas aka Iseult Labote – Lives and works in Geneva and Berlin. Born in Geneva of mixed Greek and Swiss heritage, Labote studied art history and political science at the University of Geneva. Her passion for photography, which burgeoned during her teenage years, led her to take several study trips abroad including Athens, Rome, Paris, Moscow, Bangkok, Singapore, New York, Cuba and Tokyo. Her work is represented in private collections in Switzerland, the USA, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Greece. Numerous public institutions have collected her photography, including the Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain de l’Etat de Genève (FCAC), the Geneva student residency, the MAMCO (Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Genève), Darier Private Bank, the State Museum of Contemporary Art K M S T – S M C A in Thessaloniki, The Costopoulos Foundation and the National Bank of Greece. __ The Urbanus series shows, as vestiges of an ancient civilisation which is however still ours, building facades, shelters in Berlin, Amsterdam, Marseille, stored tyres depicting a recurrent motif on a background of corrugated sheets of mobile offices. Only the traces remain behind a human. Extract from the text by Vanessa Morisset, Art Critic and Philosopher at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Creator:

Iseult Labote (1959, Greek, Swiss)

Creation Year:

1999

Dimensions:

Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Width: 47.25 in (120 cm)

Medium:

C Print,Digital

Movement & Style:

Abstract

Period:

2010-