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Three years after her last exhibition at the gallery, Dutch artist Katinka Lampe returns to Paris with a new set of paintings. Lampe’s work nearly always explores the question of our relationship with identity, whether it be intimate or overtly exposed. This time, she envisages the problematic construction of the image of oneself and of the other through the prism of social networks.

Lampe paints mostly young adults. Through the absence of the artist’s hand and the brushstruck, the technique confers an obvious realism to the work. The resemblance is evident but not of big importance. Every …