documentation céline duval
documentation céline duval - color me, 2018
Série n°4
Semiose éditions
The artist documentation céline duval has turned our vision of the world back to front with negative images of the shadows of household plants projected by candlelight. Their neat silhouettes on a black bacjground seem full of sunlight whereas these plants were made to grow indoors. Cleverly, this shadow play reminds us that light is as important for photography as it is for photosynthesis and helps us to view the images and plants as distant cousins.
documentation céline duval
Céline Duval was born in 1974 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and lives and works in Houlgate. Since 1998, she has been putting together a collection of photographic images by amateur photographers, from postcards and press clippings. These images are digitized, restored, classified thematically then published or exhibited. This process results in a change of status for these generally anonymous pictures, where a whole range of unseen images are made visible once again. Stereotypes are revealed (advertising diktats in her video Les Allumeuses, where a pile of fashion photos are shown one by one before being thrown on a fire) as well as the visual power of the images (Sporting feats from the series Trophées). Her work is a mirror of photographic practise over the years and was presented in a solo exhibition at the art centre Micro-onde in 2013. It features in the collections of the MoMA (USA), the Muséo Reina Sofia (Spain), the CNAP , the Sérignan museum, the MAC/VAL, the Kandinsky library, the Pompidou Centre and the National Library collection (France).