#2 CURATED BY VALÉRIE BELIN: WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
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 is essentially photography books, mainly monographs. So I simply invite you to share the books I love and that feed my work."
Valérie Belin
Valérie Belin has assembled some 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 :
Valérie Belin is a French visual artist born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1964. She lives and works in Paris. A student at the École des Beaux-arts de Versailles (1983-1985), then at the École nationale supérieure d'art de Bourges (1985-1988), she obtained the diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique in 1988. She also holds a degree in philosophy of art (Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1898). Initially influenced by various minimalist and conceptual currents, 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 bodies 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 intent. His work takes the form of photographic series, each produced as part of a specific 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 will be exhibiting a new series at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
She is represented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris, Brussels), Galerie Edwynn Houk in New York and Galerie Huxley-Parlour in London.