Jemima Stehli @ Marlborough Gallery

The relationship between performativity and the gaze has always been central to Jemima Stehli’s artistic practice. Her photographic works of the late 1990s and early 2000s often cite well-known imagery by established male artists such as Francis Bacon, Allen Jones and Helmut Newton, which she re-stages with her own body.

Her hybrid position as the subject/object of the work reminds us that Stehli is staging situations and performing images, rather than merely depicting them.