Maia Flore, Au lieu de ce monde

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Press release

Exhibition:

Opening reception:

Maia Flore, Au lieu de ce monde

14.03 – 05.05.2018

Wednesday March 14th 2018, from 6pm to 9pm The artist will be present.

To open our new season of exhibitions, we are happy to present Maia Flore’s latest works, where collage and drawing come and meet her photography.

After winning the HSBC prize in 2015, she has been showing through numerous exhibitions a body of work defined by a search for bridges between reality and imaginary. In her art, she distorts, modifies or enhance the world, as to assert that she will not submit herself to its laws.

Since the fall of 2017, Maia Flore has been pursuing her research at the Fresnoy-Studio School of Contemporary Arts. This exceptional place of education leads her to think about the way the body, actually her first tool, reacts with the environment in which it is placed. Starting from the reality and its limitations, she anchors her body in the landscape she photographs, and with a thoughtful choreography, she balances the space around her.

As part of the Circulation(s) Festival, Maia Flore presents in this exhibition situations that relate her beautiful and endless pursuit of the absolute moment; the one moment when everything is balanced and you feel a thrill that lasts a few seconds to then quickly disappear. Now, we must start again. The photographs are quests, artistic processes fed by the artist’s wandering. She manages to get the photograph out of its frame by intervening after the shooting with collage and a mix of materials.

With this recent research, Maia Flore explores even further the relationship between body and space, and conveys with her images the sensations she herself felt: the falling of her body, the blowing of the wind, the coldness of a block of ice, and finally, the alleviation of having escaped for a few moments from the rules of space and time.

For any inquiries, please contact Sabine Guédamour by email [email protected] or by phone at +33 (0)9 51 51 24 50

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Press visuals

L’utilisation des visuels est exclusivement réservée à la promotion de l’exposition et valable jusqu’à trois mois après sa date de clôture.Mention obligatoire : © Maia Flore, Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff




Press visuals

The use of images is exclusively reserved for promotion of the exhibition and valid up tothree months after the end date of the exhibition.Obligatory mention: © Maia Flore, courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff




Press visuals

The use of images is exclusively reserved for promotion of the exhibition and valid up tothree months after the end date of the exhibition.Obligatory mention: © Maia Flore, courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff




Biography

Artist Maia Flore

Solo shows

French photographer born in 1988, Maia Flore lives and works in Paris. She studied at the Gobelins School, became a member of Agence Vu and began exhibiting her works in 2011 at the Circulations Festival and at the Rencontres d’Arles. In the summer 2012, she went for a residency in Finland and started working on installations. In the following years, she pursued this research at Kala Art Institute of California-Berkeley. Taking her own person as a model, Maia Flore invents situations where her hair and her body act with the landscape or the scenery and transfigure the reality. Luminous poems, that begin with sketches from memories and impressions, her photographs are filled with travel, dream and imagination. In 2015, Maia Flore became the 20th winner of the HSBC Prize for Photography, along with Guillaume Martial. Since 2017, she pursues her artistic research on the moving body and on feelings at Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains.

2018Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, with Festival Circulation(s)

2017Les songes Immobiles, Ploumagoar, FranceMaia Flore, Festival Paraty em Foco, Paraty, Brasil Maia Flore, Château de Carrouges, France Imagine France, le fantastique voyage, travelling exhibition at Institut Français of Ahmedabad in India, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, of Budapest, Hungary, and of Moscow, Russia.

2016Hôtel La Belle Juliette, Paris, FranceL’enchantement va de soi, Deauville, FranceImagine France, le fantastique voyage, travelling exhibition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and at the Alliance française in Florianópolis, Brasil, at Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai, at the Parlement of North Westphalie Rhenanie in Dusseldorf, Germany, at the Shinsegye Gallerie in Seoul, South Korea, at the Violin Factory in London and in the Instituts Français of Brasilia, Brasil, of Tokyo, Japan, of Copenhagen, Danemark, of Hanoi, Vietnam and of Fukuoka, Dunhuang, China.

2015Sleep Elevations, Musée Nicéphore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône, FranceMaia Flore, Clos Lucé, FranceImagine France, le fantastique voyage, travelling exhibition at the Alliance Française of Bruxelles, at So tel Beijing, at Institut National de Langue in Luxembourg, at the Institut français of Amsterdam, of Madrid and of Barcelona.

2014Modernbook Gallery, San Francisco, USA Imagine France, le fantastique voyage, Bercy Village, Paris and Instituts Français of Milan and Rome in Italy Gallery Emmanuel Fremin, New York, USA

2013Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI, USA

2012Sleep Elevations, Galerie Madé, Paris




Awards and residencies

2017Proyecta Madrid, Madrid, SpainNuit de la Photographie, La Chaux-de-Fond, Switzerland Phenomenon, Bolinas Museum, California, USA AIPAD The Photography Show, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, New York

2016Théâtre de Gap, FranceAIPAD, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, New York

2015Regards, Alençon, FrancePrix HSBC, travelling exhibition with Guillaume Martial, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff in Paris, Galerie le Réverbère in Lyon, Musée de la Photographie André Villers à Mougins, L’Arsenal in Metz, Maison de la Photographie in LilleMorning Sculptures, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris

2014The enigmatic object, Filter Festival, Chicago, IL, USAThe Art of Work, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, USA

2013International Photography Festival Gextophoto, curated by Christian Caujolle, SpainArt du Jardin, Grand Palais, ParisNordArt Festival, Kunstwerk-Calshuette, Büdelsdorf, GermanySony Word photography, Somerset House, London, United KingdomProject Basho gallery, Philadelphie, PA, USAFototropia Gallery, GuatemalaLes Contemplatives, Gallery 111, ParisPhotoplace Gallery, Middlebury VT, USA

2012Atelier Lardeur, ParisBiennale des Créateurs d’Images, Cité de la Mode et du Design, ParisLes Photographiques, Festival de l’Image, Le Mans, France Centre Culturel le Belvedère, Uriage les Bains, France

2011Les Photaumnales, Beauvais, FranceLes Rencontres d’Arles, Galerie le Magasin de Jouets, Arles, FranceLa nuit de l’année, avec l’Agence Vu, Arles, FranceFotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, ItalyCirculation(s), festival de la jeune photographie européenne, Paris

Group shows (selection)

2017Artist residence, PERI Photographic center, Turku, Finland

2016Artist residence, Arteless, Haukijärvi, FinlandFestival Planche Contacts, Deauville, France

2015HSBC prize for photography, with Guillaume Martial

2014Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI, USA




Publications(selection)

«Monday and other morning sculptures» New Yorker (USA) Aesthetica (United Kingdom)Time (USA)Kinfolk Magazine (USA)Huffington Post (France)Libération (France)Connaissance des Arts ( France )L’Oeil ( France) Regardez voir, radio interview with Brigitte Patient, France Inter, 14th May 2015Les Carnets de la Création, radio interview with Aude Lavigne, France Culture, 1st June 2015

2013Short-listed for Sony World Photography award, LondonArtist residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA, USAPrix PHPA, Paris

2012Artist residency, Fiskars, Finland

2011Entrevues, Paris - Arles, FranceFestival Circulation(s), Paris

Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, FranceArtoteca of Roma, ItalyFondation de FranceOpéra de ParisMairie de Deauville, FranceThéâtre de Gap, France

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