Katrien De Blauwer at Librairie 7L

Tight into a ball
Librairie 7L
7 rue de Lille
75007 Paris, France
06/07/2026-07/11/2026

Katrien de Blauwer turned to the photography magazines in Karl Lagerfeld’s library as both source and mirror. Drawn to a particular period — the late 1920s and into the 1930s — she found herself moving through frozen images of people mid-transformation: bodies compressed into legibility by the camera, lives fixed onto paper. Working through a Woolfian lens, she made a series of work that borrow these figures to tell a story that is, as always, personal.

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