Fine, concentrated like a poet on her prosody, clear and precise like a mathematician who likes to solve an endless problem, Valérie Belin is as clear as her images are composed, superimposed, worked on, referenced, inhabited.
With striking calm, the French photographer who was the 6th winner of the Prix Pictet in 2015 with her series
Still Life
(2014) - this small format which calmly confronted the ancient theater at the Rencontres d'Arles in July 2016 and where she explained without weakening its motives and its method - has the unalterable softness of polished stone.
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The fire under the ice?
Here she is, impeccable and straight in her studio in the 13th arrondissement, sober, tidy, without outward signs of fantasy.
A fresh flower woman who has just blossomed, despite the July heat wave in Paris.
Her face, very pale, seems free from the make-up she uses like a painter in her famous portraits.
Valérie Belin transforms models…
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