Bettina Rheims
Nouvelle Eve/New Eve, c. 1997
Vintage C-print
9.4 x 7.5 in. / cm 24 x 19,2
Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in
the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions,
she was the first woman. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as Adam's wife and
the first woman although she is not specifically named in the Quran.
According to the second chapter of Genesis, Eve was created
by God by taking her from the rib of Adam, to be Adam's companion. She succumbs
to the serpent's temptation to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. She shares the fruit with Adam, and as a result the
first humans are expelled from the Garden of Eden. Christian churches differ on
how they view both Adam and Eve's disobedience to God, and to the consequences
that those actions had on the rest of humanity. Christian and Jewish teachings
sometimes hold Adam and Eve to a different level of responsibility for the
fall, although Islamic teaching holds both equally responsible. More on Eve
Bettina (Caroline Germaine) Rheims
is a French photographer born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 18 December 1952. Bettina's photographic career began in 1978,
when she took a series of photos of a group of strip-tease artists and
acrobats, which would lead to her first exhibitions. This work would unveil
Bettina Rheims’ favourite subject, the female model, to which she would
frequently return during her career.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Bettina Rheims worked on one of her
major series, entitled Chambre Close (1990-1992). This was her first in colour
and marked the start of her collaboration with the novelist Serge Bramly, in a
work which saw her photographs coupled with the writer’s fiction.
In 1995, the Presidency of the French Republic commissioned
Bettina Rheims to take the official portrait of Jacques Chirac.
The 1999 publication of the book I.N.R.I. and its eponymous
exhibitio, once again united the gaze of Bettina Rheims with the prose of Serge
Bramly. I.N.R.I. builds a philosophical dialogue on the history of the
crucifixion through photographs of scenes of the life of Christ. In France, the
publication of this work was highly controversial.
In 2002, Bettina Rheims created a series on Shanghai
during two long stays in the city. In 2005, at the Galerie De Noirmont, Bettina
exhibited Héroïnes, a work that was primarily a homage to sculpture.
At the end of the 2000s, Bettina worked with Serge Bramly
again and exhibited Rose, c’est Paris in 2010 at the National Library of
France. The photographic tale was again built on a thread of fiction that
Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly created from autobiographical elements. More on Bettina Rheims
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