Valérie Jouve (born December 27, 1964, in
Saint-Étienne, France) is a contemporary French photographer, video artist, and director.
Biography
After studying anthropology, Valérie Jouve began pursuing a career as a photographer. Her work refers as much to contemporary art as it does to the fields of anthropology, sociology, and reporting. By photographing "played" or "performed" images, she revels the daily theatrical aspects of contemporary society.
Valérie Jouve has exhibited her photography since 1995, notably at the galerie Anne de Villepoix. In September 2006, she had her first exhibition at the Galerie Xippas in Paris. Her exhibition ''En attente ''was presented at the
Centre Georges Pompidou in 2010. She had a major survey in 2015 at the
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume ( en, Real Tennis Court) is an arts centre for modern and postmodern photography and media. It is located in the north corner (west side) of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. In 2004, Galerie Nationale ...
.
As a film director, she made her first movie, ''Grand Littoral'', in 2003, which won the Prix Georges de Beauregard National at the
Marseille Festival of Documentary Film
Marseille International Film Festival (in French the Festival international de cinéma de Marseille or FIDMarseille) is a documentary film festival held yearly since 1989 in Marseille, France. The festival awards grand prizes in international and ...
. In 2006, she directed ''Time is Working around Rotterdam''.
She received the
prix Niépce in 2013.
She was named a knight of the
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.
Bibliography
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* ''Valérie Jouve'', exhibition, March 4-April 20, 1998, Centre national de la photographie; catalogue, ed. Michel Poivert,
Centre national de la photographie
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Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21 ...
, Arles,
Actes Sud
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H ...
, 1998.
* ''Valérie Jouve'', exhibition, June 23-September 13, 2010, Centre Pompidou; catalogue, ed.
Quentin Bajac
Quentin Bajac (born 1965) is a French museum curator and art historian specialising in the history of photography. He is the director of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
Bajac has held positions at the Musée d'Orsay (1995–2003 ...
, éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2010, 96 p.
* Valérie Jouve, ''Résonances'', Göttingen, Steidl, 2010, 240 p.
* ''Ceci n'est pas un parc'', éditions Libel, Lyon, 2010.
* ''Valérie Jouve'', by Dean Inkster; Paris, Hazan, 2002.
* ''Valérie Jouve: Corps en résistance'', exhibition, June 2-September 27, 2015, Jeu de Paume; November 5, 2015 – January 17, 2016, La Corogne, la Fundación Luis Seoane; catalogue, ed. Marta Gili and Pia Viewing, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2015.
* "The spaces of containment: Valérie Jouve's urban portraits," by Olga Smith, ''Nottingham French Studies'', 2014, .
References
External links
* http://www.valeriejouve.com/
* https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/resource/cAbM8Mq/rXKEak
* http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?page=article&idArt=2239
Olga Smith, 'The spaces of containment: Valérie Jouve's urban portraits', Nottingham French Studies, (2014): 155-168
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1964 births
Living people
French photographers
French video artists
French documentary film directors
French women photographers
Women documentary filmmakers
20th-century French women
French contemporary artists