#2 CURATED BY VALÉRIE BELIN : WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
FROM MARCH 28 TO MAY 28
" In response to L'INAPERÇU's invitation, I chose the theme of women photographers not as a subject in itself, but because I thought it was an opportunity to show the diversity and quality of work produced by artists who share with me the fact of being both women and photographers. As a great lover of photography books myself, I have conceived my mission as a sort of inventory of my own library, to which I have added references that I feel are essential. My selection consists essentially of photography books, mainly monographs. So I simply invite you to share the books I love and that feed my work."
Valerie Belin
Valérie Belin has gathered about fifty reference books, many of which are rare or out of print, by the following artists : Tina Barney, Sarah Dobai, Nan Goldin, Dominique Issermann, Sarah Jones, Valérie Jouve, Karen Knorr, Rinko Kawauchi, Annie Leibovitz, Zoe Leonard, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Sarah Moon, Viviane Sassen, Shirana Shahbazi, Sophy Rickett, Agnès Varda, Sabine Weiss...
About Valérie Belin :
Fren artiste Valérie Belin was born in 1964 in Boulogne-Billancourt. She lives and works in Paris. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Versailles (1983-1985), then at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges (1985-1988), and obtained the Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique in 1988. She also holds a degree in art philosophy (University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1898). Initially influenced by various minimalist and conceptual movements, Valérie Belin became interested in the photographic medium, which is both the subject of her work and her means of reflection and creation. Light, matter and the body of things and beings in general, as well as their transformations and representations, constitute the terrain of her experiments and the universe of her artistic purpose. The work manifests itself in the form of photographic series, each one being realized within the framework of a project.
Valérie Belin's works have been exhibited worldwide and are part of numerous public and private collections. Winner of the Prix Pictet in 2015 (Disorder), Valérie Belin was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2017. In the same year, a solo exhibition was co-produced by the Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing, SCAP in Shanghai and the Chengdu Museum. In 2019, Valérie Belin is exhibiting an unpublished series at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
She is represented by the Nathalie Obadia Gallery (Paris, Brussels), the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York and the Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London.