Valérie Jouve (born December 27, 1964, in
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regi ...
, 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
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...
in 2010. She had a major survey in 2015 at the
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume.
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
FIDMarseille (Festival international de cinéma de Marseille) is an international film festival held annually in Marseille, France.
History
The festival began in 1989 and was previously known as the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film.
Pro ...
. 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
The Order of Arts and Letters () is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant ...
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
The Centre national de la photographie is a French association managed by the Ministry of Culture, dedicated to photography and contemporary art
Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced f ...
, Arles,
Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members.
...
, 1998.
* ''Valérie Jouve'', exhibition, June 23-September 13, 2010, Centre Pompidou; catalogue, ed.
Quentin Bajac, 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
French women documentary filmmakers
20th-century French women
French contemporary artists