Witzenhausen Gallery

pépé smit’s work is often not what it looks like at  first glance. misleading sweetness takes you by the hand and leads you into a darker world where hidden power relations are explored. in a familiar but uncomfortable view on daily life, an innocent ritual like having a cup of tea turns out to be an everlasting stranglehold.

pépé smit's  first love is photography.  Thee video’s she makes are closely related to her photo’s. especially the video-loops can almost be seen as (slow) moving photo’s.  They are a world of their own in which time-lines, plots or even time itself do not exist.