Valérie Belin

Valérie Belin (born 1964)[1] is a French photographer.[2][3][4] She lives and works in Paris.[5]

Valérie Belin
Belin at work
Born1964 (age 56–57)
Boulogne-Billancourt
NationalityFrench
Known forPhotography
Websitehttps://valeriebelin.com

Biography

Valérie Belin was born in Boulogne-Billancourt.[5] She trained at the École Beaux-arts de Versailles from 1983 to 1985 and at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges from 1985 to 1988, and then obtained a diploma in advanced studies in the philosophy of art from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1989.[5]

In 2015 she won the sixth Prix Pictet, the theme of which was “Disorder.”[6] That year she also had an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, entitled Unquiet Images and comprising around 30 works depicting mannequins.[7]

Works

Her work takes the form of photographic series. In the 2000s she started using digital post-production tools which gave her greater freedom to change and control the chromatic values of the prints. She now produced her first series in colour.

In 2009 Belin began to use other kinds of digital manipulation, heightening the hybrid, graphic and artificial dimension of her work. These include solarisation and overprinting. Since then, she has also worked with other abstract vectorial forms, like digital “readymades” found on the internet, which she reworks on the computer, melding them with her images.[8]

Film and performance

At the same time, Belin has explored other forms of expression. Black-Eyed Susan (2011) is a video based on the photographic series of the same name from 2010. MJ6 was a live event in 2013, a choreographed performance based on her 2004 series on Michael Jackson lookalikes, presented at Centre Georges Pompidou.

Awards
  • 2000 Prix Fondation CCF (HSBC) pour la Photographie[9]
  • 2001 Prix Altadis
  • 2015 Prix Pictet[10]

References
  1. "Valérie Belin". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. Pollack, Kira (13 April 2011). "Double Vision: Valérie Belin's Black Eyed Susan". Time. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  3. Attias, Laurie (September 2001). "Valerie Belin". Frieze. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  4. Horan, Tom (24 June 2006). "Viewfinder: Palettes by Valérie Belin". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  5. "About". Valérie Belin. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  6. "Portfolios: Disorder". Prix Pictet. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  7. "Valérie Belin's "Unquiet Images" at Centre Pompidou in Paris". BlouinArtinfo. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  8. "Belin transgresses between reality and illusion". www.shine.cn. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  9. Wachter, R. F.; Briggs, G. P.; Pedersen, C. E. (November 1975). "Precipitation of phase I antigen of Coxiella burnetii by sodium sulfite". Acta Virologica. 19 (6): 500. ISSN 0001-723X. PMID 2000.
  10. "Valérie Belin | Prix Pictet | The global award in photography and sustainability". www.prixpictet.com. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
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