Photography | Aurore Valade
Aurore Valade
Limits of the Private Sphere Aurore Valade is a French photographer born in 1981, who creates images that play with the iconography of scene-ography. Valade photographs people that play themselves in their own home. In these very elaborate stagings, clichés return to the surface significantly reflecting social, economical or cultural conditions of our time. They also reflect some of the values that question the limits of the private sphere.
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In these very elaborate stagings, clichés return to the surface significantly reflecting social, economical or cultural conditions of our time. After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Aurore Valade attended the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles, graduating in 2005. Her work Intérieurs avec Figures (Interior with faces) was awarded the 2005 Bourse de Talent Prize, 2006 Quinzaine Photographic Nantaise Prize and the 2008 Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie Prize. A monography Grand Miroir (Big Mirror) was published by Actes Sud Editions, followed by Plein Air (Outdoors), published during the same year by Diaphane Editions. Her recent exhibitions have been held at Casa de Francia in Mexico in 2014, at Gagliardi Art System Gallery in Turin (Italy) and at Stieglitz19 in Antwerp (Belgium) in 2013. In 2012, her works were shown at Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles (France). Aurore Valade is represented by the galleries Gagliardi Art System (Turin), Stieglitz19 (Antwerp) and by the agency Picturetank (Paris).
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