Pierre et Gilles

Pierre and Gilles are a French artist duo who have since 1976, created a singular iconography together. Their life-sized portraits, somewhere between photographs and paintings, feature both celebrities (including Jean-Paul Gaultier and Isabelle Hupert) and their friends. Their photographs, printed on canvas and then retouched with paint, transport us into a world where people look perfect and idealised, drawing on inspiration from mythology, fairy tales and pop culture. Pierre and Gilles’ work has enjoyed widespread recognition from galleries and institutions, from MuMa (Le Havre) to the Museum of Art in Seoul.