After having worked during several years on deserted landscapes, Catherine Gfeller has choosen New York to investigate the urban world. She creates long "urban friezes", which are horizontal or vertical compositions, obtained by montage, collage and superimposition of images. The photographer so invents a universe, which is at the same time close and far from reality of towns. Then, she has place in Paris and composes some wide sets, which mix architectural elements and characters. At present, Catherine Gfeller explores video and sound, according to " the current trends ", to call up more personal subjects. Poetry, verbs, words represent her constant inspiration. Her last plays (video and sound installations, projections) transport in real romantic universes, which mix autobiographical and fictional data. Her works evoke with originality the inner life of close characters, who are battling against their every day life or in interaction with the run of the unchangeable and moving city.
2006: Carzaniga and Ueker Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, Ruth Bachofner, Los Angeles, USA 2005: Jubilee Bank Leu, Zurich, Switzerland, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, USA 2004: Carzaniga and Ueker Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 2003: Ruth Bachofner Gallery, 6th L.A. International, Santa Monica, USA, Fictions Urbaines, Rez d'art contemporain, Meyzieu-Lyon, France 2002: Versions d'elle, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, Month of Photography, MEP, Carzaniga and Ueker Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Museum of Fine Arts, Lille, France 2001: Keitelmann Fine Arts Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
Acquisitions: National Library, Paris, France CCF Fundation for Photography, Paris, France Royal Museum and Pavilion, Brighton, UK Museum of Contemporary Photography, Brescia, Italy Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium Elysée Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland American Art Ressources, Houston, Texas, USA
