CATHY CAT-RASTLER
Photos, Videos, Installations

Born in France, lives and works in Paris

University Studies
Master in psychology, psychoanalysis
Master in American literature and civilization
Newark University, USA, teaching French and writing an essay on the evolution of American contemporary dance
Classical and contemporary dance classes

Solo Shows
Permanently represented by Odile Ouizeman Gallery Paris
Mediacenter Enghien Les Bains, Co-lapsus, photos, installation,video, 2009
Gallery Odile Ouizeman, Paris 3, March 2008, "Take the Trabant and leave!" photos and videos installations
Transplant, Norway - Inaugural opening, June 2007 - "Coming out" installation
Gallery Brun Léglise, Paris 7, December 2005, "Men and their teddies" photos and sound
Gallery Eric de Montbel, Paris 6, July-September 2003, "Liquid emotion" photos
Gallery Candid Art, Salerno Italia, April 2003, "Liquid emotion" installation
La Chapelle de l'Humanité, Paris 3, November 2002, "Immersion" installation
WAGG, Paris 6, June 2002, "Immersion" installation, photos and sound
Gallery Eric de Montbel, Paris 6, July-August 2000, "Insects" photos
La Maroquinerie,Paris, April 2001, "Looks" photos
Gallery Eric de Montbel , Paris 6, October 2000, "Apparition disparition"
Gallery Mireille Batut d'Haussy, Paris 5, July 2000, "Plastic identity" photos
Galerie Kan'h , Bruxelles, September 2000; "Insects" installation

Group Shows
Gallery Odile Ouizeman - september 2007- Women's bodies "Encorps des femmes"
Gallery Odile Ouizeman - April-May 2007- "What sense?" Inaugural opening
Gallery Eric de Montbel - July-September 2005 - "Vegetal vanishing"
Gallery Brun Léglise - Nov 2004 - "The vacuum cleaners' icons"
Artmetz, guest in multimedia section - April 04 - "Liquid emotion" installation
Finalist Photoespana Madrid- July 2003 - "Trabymove" photos
Gallery Brun Leglise - June 2003 - "Immersion" installation
Gallery Jeu de Paume - Osaka and Tokyo, Japan - April-May 2001 -
Salon de Montrouge - May 2001 - "Liquid emotion" installation
Chaumont Chapelle des Jésuites - July 2001 - "Liquid running" installation
Biennal Sculpture, Jardin des Plantes - September 2001 - "Immersion" outdoor installation
Salon de Montrouge - May 2000, then Scotland, Italy, Portugal - "Showcase"
Biennal sculpture, Jardin des Plantes - September 1999 - "Apparition, disparition"

Publication
"Mythologies Personnelles" by Isabelle de Maisonrouge,Scala publisher 2004
 
Statement
"As a sharp observer of the frontier zone crossing art and social, Cathy Cat-Rastler is unceasingly looking for the displacement, the step aside, the gap where a tiny grain of sand could slip into. According to her, resilient changes can emerge from the slightest details and be instilled into the social background. She thinks that we are drowned into a society where needs have replaced desires. That's why she chooses a new attitude : "an attitude which is more ethical than aesthetic. A definitely political and thus definitely human attitude that involves people in a sensitive sharing and seeks in everyday life a new reality that stresses a resistance deep-rooted in the human being…" Through her photographic work, she targets some "nooks" in the reality that break the common standard and that crack this "uniform world" we are assigned to live in."