Virginie Gouband, Winner of the Prix du Conseil Général des Hauts-de-Seine du 59ème Salon de Montrouge

(born in 1988, lives and works in Dordogne) invites the visitor into a closed space and presents an installation integrating reflecting materials that play with the light. The works question the materiality of the image by pushing back the limits between the photographed object and the abstract form resulting from it.

Her interest lies in the way that photography and video relate to light. Color is added to this relationship through transparencies, permeability and fade-outs in a delicate and poetic process that equally integrates voluntary degradation, burning and wearing through light exposure. In the series of Light Sculptures, begun in 2011, the pictures taken of color filters—through the reproduction process of the object blurring our perception of the photographed objects—question their status as photographic object and disturb our representation of reality. Playing on projections and transpositions, her work implies potential action upon the exhibition space and its visitors. In her most recent pieces, the artist has considered the architecture as existing for the works, opening the image to a real presence and making it interact with the space that contains it.

Curator: Bernard Marcadé