Artist
Nolwenn Brod
Nolwenn Brod is a French artist based in Paris. She has studied humanities and social sciences, and trained in photography in London and at the Ecole des Gobelins in Paris. She is a member of the Vu Agency and represented by the eponymous gallery in Paris since 2016.
She develops her projects most often in the context of creative residencies in France and Europe where she mixes photography and video; and responds to commissions for the press and institutions. Her works are regularly exhibited in France and Europe and are included in the collections of the Bnf (French National Library), the Cnap, the Nicéphore Niépce Museum, the Museum of Brittany, the Villa Noailles, the Agnès b. collection, the Neuflize OBC Foundation, art libraries and private collections.
Her first book was published by Poursuite Editions in 2015, the second is in preparation.
Time of immaturity
For several years Nolwenn Brod has been exploring the dimension of the encounter in a phenomenological approach in search of form in the sense of behavior. The people she meets by chance are photographic bodies and social bodies. Each portrait, each individual case is political, it becomes indispensable, necessary. The meticulous observation of the significant gestures of daily life, the micro-sensation, the micro-event, the lability of the present moment between beings and their ontology nourish her work often accompanied by literature and writing. It is often a question of the representation of an interior combat, of a duel, of the forms that the forces created in their conflict.
"What can a body caught between other bodies, the world, and itself."
Jean-Pierre Salgas
Anaïs Boileau, juggles personal work with assignments for the international press. Her work strikes a subtle balance between documentary approaches and abstraction, with an undiminished appetite for shapes, colours, materials and their interactions.
Nolwenn Brod digs into the thick depths of the photographic images, mining her subjects over an extensive period. Her images reflect encounters; between vulnerability and strength, fragility and affirmation.
Pauline Hisbacq's images are frail presences, in appearance. Whether she's the author of the photographs, or whether she makes use of archival images - sourced from the Internet - she treats them with the same gesture, honing in on fragments.
Coline Jourdan recently undertook a residency in the South of France. The resulting project - Soulever la poussière - is both documentary and visual, exploring the pollution caused by an old arsenic mine.