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4 Anne Lefebvre Portfolio She puts the world out of the world

5 European Journal of Media, Art & Photography

The raw material of the photographs is a daily object on which Anne Lefebvre relies to announce worries. The motifs are composed of elements collected in the artist’s home environment. Household items, bath, glass, spoon and hand to order the whole.

Anne Lefebvre deploys the object and increases it.Each test is worked at length like an engraving and is obtained after several states.

Painter of formation she treats the photographic paper without care and wishes the unforeseen and the accidents.The photographic overlays obtained are compared to a superposition of events.Anne Lefebve poses her biography on the object. At the origin of her approach, the interest in the protocol oberoutes, literary figures of the 1920s in Russia that placed the object and the word at the center of their concerns.

- Your images are far from meeting the classic criteria of the current photography:This “genre” is part of an already almost classical tradition with filiations. To name but a few: Gerard

Fieret, Miroslaw Tichy, Sigmar Polke. Even if it is a “family” with very different or isolated members, there is a kinship. - The lab draw is an important step in your work:In the bins, the ideas are clarified by developing “under alternative control” and there is always this idea to be able to discover a little more of the dark side of the moon. - Anachronism is very present in your photography:Yes, but there is an internal chronology and photography allows temporal ellipses.

- As part of your publications you realized a box of photographs entitled “Vrouw” with the Editions Higgins:“Vrouw” is a word close to the onomatopoeia, it recalls a noise, has the visual arrangement of a palindrome and indicates the woman in Flemish. This series of 15 photographs tells a Belgian story in the shape of women and stairs and was prefaced by Charlet Kugel in a “Private Chronicle”

- What are you currently working on, what are your plans?I am preparing the exhibition

of a French artist as a curator for the festival “Levice Photography Days” in Slovakia. In addition, I am also working on the production of a new photographic book.

- Your photos plunge us into a powerful and dark world at the same time that you direct, armed with many sources of pictorial, cinematographic or literary inspirations:

Yes, they are confused as to the origin, source, provenance, and author of these images. The prints, often unique, seem to arise from another time and speak a foreign language. They are thought to have been rescued from a shipwreck or taken from photo albums of a family of Russian emigrants who arrived in France in Boulogne-Billancourt (my birthplace), a city renamed “Billankoursk”, the title of my first monographic work edited by La Lettre Volée in Belgium in 2012.

- Who inspires you?Knut Hamsun, Patti Smith, Ingmar Bergman, Marcel Duchamp, William Faulkner, Daniil Harms, Improvised Dance, Edvard Munch, Norwegian Thrillers.

Anne LEFEBVREShe puts the world out of the world



Anne LEFEBVRE(*1963, France)

2, bis square Henry Paté75016 ParisFrance

Email: [email protected] site: http://www.anne-lefebvre.fr/

Education 1981-1988: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (National School of Fine Arts), Paris (France)1985-1988: Parson’s School of Photography, Paris (France)

Solo shows 2013 Billankoursk, Galerie Jean

Greset, Besançon (France) 2012 Billankoursk, Espace

Contretype, Brussels (Belgium)

1993 La Noce, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)

Group Shows and Fairs 2017 AIPAD Photography Show,

Gallery 19/21, New York (USA) Classic Photographs, Gallery 19/21, Los Angeles (USA)

2016 AIPAD Photography Show, Gallery 19/21, New York (USA) Classic Photographs, Gallery 19/21, Los Angeles (USA) Paris Photo, Dirk Bakker Books, Grand Palais, Paris (France)

2015 AIPAD Photography Show, Gallery 19/21, New York (USA)

Classic Photographs, Gallery 19/21, Los Angeles (USA)

Paris Photo, Dirk Bakker Books, Grand Palais, Paris (France)

Paris Photo Los Angeles, Dirk Bakker Books, Paramount Pictures Studios, Los Angeles (USA)

Parallèle, Institut Français, Budapest (Hungary)

Summer Show, Galeria Pedro Alfacinha, Lisbon (Portugal)

Multiple Art Days (MAD), la maison rouge, Paris (France)

Levice Photography Days, Levice Castle, Levice (Slovaquia)

2014 AIPAD Photography Show, Gallery 19/21, New York (USA) Classic Photographs, Gallery 19/21, Los Angeles (USA)

Le Mur, la maison rouge, Paris (France)

Violent Noon, Asuncion (Paraguay)

Salon Cosmos, Montreuil (France)


Paris Photo Los Angeles, Dirk Bakker Books, Paramount Pictures Studios, Los Angeles (USA)

2013 Art as contraband, Containers, Lisbon (Portugal)

Une autre école, Rencontre Photographique d’Arles, Arles (France)

AIPAD Photography Show, Gallery 19/21, New York (USA)

Classic Photographs, Gallery 19/21, Los Angeles (USA)


Vrai ou Faux ?, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

2011 Vrai ou Faux ?, Gallery Gabriele Senn, Vienna (Austria)

Vrai ou Faux ?, 8. Salon e. V., Hamburg (Germany)

A Mysterious Cruise, Gallery Sophie Scheidecker, Paris (France)

EU Woman, Tutün Deposu ek Bina, Istanbul (Turkey)

2010 Outsider Land, New York Photo Festival, New York (USA)

2002 Observatorium, Art Museum Z33, Hasselt (Belgium)

2000 Relative exposure I, Bains Connectiv, Brussels (Belgium)

Relative exposure II, Bains Connectiv, Brussels (Belgium)

Paris Photo, Galerie Zéro l’Infini, Musée du Louvre, Paris (France)

1999 Paris Photo, Galerie Zéro l’Infini, Musée du Louvre, Paris (France)

1996 Speak Akten All, Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris (France)

1994 Autour de l’érotisme, Centre Vieille Charité, Marseille (France)

1989 Etat de siège, Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse (France)

1988 Etat de siège, Chapelle des Grands Augustins, Paris (France)

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