Language: English
Location: Residenzplatz 10, 5020 Salzburg
In her art talk with Hildegund Amanshauser, Valérie Jouve will speak about the relationship between town and photography, and the significance of analogue medium- and large-format photography in her work. She will also deal with ways of combining analogue and digital techniques today, and discuss the role of photography in the definition of the contemporary town.
Valérie Jouve, born in Saint-Étienne (FR) in 1964, lives in Paris.
She has always worked with the 4.5 inch camera, because she sees it as a tool
which can accommodate more than the purely optical view. She aims to combine elements
to form an idea of human society. Photographer and filmaker, Valérie Jouve
tirelessly browses the city in search of its inhabitants. Observer of the urban
landscape, she captures a singular space in a particular time, questioning our
way to look at things and perceive them. The photographic work of Valérie Jouve
has developed two entities: humans and landscapes, and more generally the city and
its outskirts. Each image is constructed around the notion of an encounter
between bodies, whether they are individuals, architectures, or landscape
components. It is a moving space, fluctuating and shared, that the artist
highlights in her photographs. Tight frames, suspended bodies. The characters are
neither caricatures nor anecdotal. When Valérie Jouve photographs people, while
the image is the pretext for the meeting, in the end, it’s the meeting that
becomes the pretext for the image. (www.xippas.com)
Exhibitions 2015 Corps en résistance, Jeu de Paume, Paris, Fundación Seoane, La Coruña
(ES). 2014 5 femmes du pays de la lune, Musée d’art contemporain
du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL), Paris. 2013 Un Etat, Galerie Xippas,
Paris. 2010 En attente, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Publications Valérie Jouve.
Corps en résistance, exh. cat.
Jeu de Paume, Filigranes Éditions, Paris 2015.
