Valérie Belin under the Coupole
On February 4, under the dome of the Palais de l'Institut de France, Valérie Belin was officially installed as a member of the photography section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, in chair VI, created in 2022. The ceremony was a landmark one, highlighted by a speech by Nina Childress, who recounted with force and admiration the career of an artist whose work for over thirty years has questioned the power of simulacra, the ambiguity of reality and the strange beauty of images.
Through rigorous, frontal, monumental photography, Valérie Belin explores bodies, faces, objects and their metamorphoses. Her universe, permeated by a "disquieting strangeness", deliberately blurs the boundaries between the living and the artificial, identity and appearance, flesh and icon.
At the end of the session, Pierre Rainero, Director of Image, Style and Heritage at Maison Cartier, presented her with her academician's sword, conceived as a symbolic extension of her work, inspired in particular by The Girl Who Never Died, between superimpositions, graphic signs and references to Americana.
Valérie Belin is currently on show at the Franciscaines in an exceptional retrospective, offering the public a spectacular tour of her work... and also revealing 5 previously unseen works from her latest Cover Girl series.
Philippe Augier, Mayor of Deauville and President of the Franciscaines, Annie Madet-Vache, Museum Director, andEmma Crayssac, Deputy Director and Temporary Exhibitions Production Manager, were on hand for the installation ceremony to salute this historic moment.
A major artist, institutional recognition, and a body of work to be discovered now at Les Franciscaines.
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| Upcoming exhibitions
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> Book |
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| André Hambourg Collection
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