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    PAULINE ROUSSEAU

    Portrait-Rousseau-Pauline-crédit-photographique-Marguerite-Bornhauser

    Hegemonic masculinity is her subject of choice. “What does it mean to be a woman who photographs men ? What happens when the equation from thousands of years ago such as men being actors/creators/watchers and women being passive muses/ objects is discomposed ?” These are the questions she tries to answer in her work.

    For Faire corps, Pauline Rousseau presents a photograph out of her series “Les Chefs d’œuvres du Louvre”, which focuses on masculine nudity. She desacralises some of the Louvre’s masterpieces whilst emphasizing the many paradoxes of virility.

    Pauline Rousseau was born in 1989, after studying literature (hypokhâgne) she joined l’École du Louvre from which she graduated in 2012. She obtained her master’s degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in 2016. Her work can be found in private collections in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Arles.

    EDUCATION

    2016

    Post-grad at ICP School- New-York

    2013-2016

    Graduated from l’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie- Arles

    2015

    Exchange program at La Cambre- Brussels

    2008-2012

    Graduated from l’École du Louvre

    Archeology, history of Arts and museology – option « Art du 20e siècle »

    2007-2008

    Classe Préparatoire de Lettres supérieures – Lycée Claude Monet – Paris

    SOLO SHOWS

    2022
    Atrium Tropiques de Fort-de-France, curated by Éline Gourgues – Martinique

    2020
    Homonyma, Mais qui est vraiment Pauline Rousseau? à La Folie des fêtes, La Villette, Paris

    2019
    The Would Me & Délits d’objets – galerie Dilecta

    2018
    Le Catalogue, in the cloister of La Chapelle de L’observance and at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Draguignan – Draguignan

    Exhibition at l’hôtel de l’Industrie during the Journées du Patrimoine – Paris

    2017
    Les Oiseaux, Bibliothèque Benjamin Rabier – Paris

    Dans (leurs) lits, Galerie G- Toulon

    GROUP SHOWS
    2022
    Exposition Zinder 1900-2020, aux Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer, in partnership with the CNRS

    2021
    Faire Corps, at gallery Paris-Beijing

    Rouvrir le Monde, artist residency supported by the Direction régionale des Arts Contemporains (DRAC PACA)

    2020
    Exposition (all) Ready-Made, Espace Beaurepaire (Paris), commissariat réalisé par Museum of Everybody (29/01/20 – 09/02/20)

    2019
    Exhibition Collector #3, curated by LES JEUNES CRITIQUES D’ART, galerie Dilecta, Paris … with the works of Mircea Cantor, Jan Fabre, Annette Messager, Valérie Mréjen, Pauline Rousseau, Edgar Sarin, Morgane Tschiember et Lee Ufan

    Exhibition La Recherche pour l’art in partnership with l’INSERM, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie-Arles

    Exhibition Zinder 1900 – 2019 in partnership with the CNRS, at Archives Nationales d’Outre Mer, Aix-en-Provence

    Exhibition at the Franco-Nigerian Cultural Centre of Niamey at the invitation of the CNRS and the French Embassy in Niger- Niamey

    2018
    The Voices behind the victories, at the Alliance Française de Singapour- Singapour

    Retours d’ailleurs, Galerie Arena – Arles

    Screening of the video “55” produced in collaboration with Juliette Seban, at the invitation of the International College of Philosophy, during the Night of Ideas 2018, Palais de Tokyo – Paris

    2017
    Cocktail Sous Les Tropiques, LaVallée – Brussels

    Pièce Montée, Collectif Sous Les Tropiques – Brussels

    Rêvez, Fondation Yvon Lambert- Avignon

    2016
    Faire Surface, Galerie Agnès b – Paris

    Byopaper (sélection par Fisheye Magazine), Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie – Arles

    Conversations Photographiques en duo avec Olivier Culmann, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie – Arles

    4 x 6, Galerie du Magasin de Jouet – Arles

    Piège de Cristal, Collectif Sous Les Tropiques – Brussels

    Fragilité, Galerie G – Toulon

    2015
    WIP, Eglise Saint-Julien pendant la semaine d’ouverture des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie – Arles

    Nuits Voies Off, Projection dans la cour de l’Archevêché durant la semaine d’ouverture des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie – Arles

    Passion(s) du Christ, Galerie ETE 78 – Brussels

    Epic Light, Carpe Diem centro de arte e pesquisa – Lisbon

    AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES/ PUBLICATIONS

    2020

    Selected for the Création en Cours residency with les Ateliers Médicis

    2019

    Laureate of la Bourse La Recherche pour l’Art in partnership with l’Inserm

    2018

    Residency in Zinder (Niger) at the invitation of the CNRS and the French Embassy in Niger- Niamey

    Artist residency at musée des Beaux-arts de Draguignan (30)

    2017

    Laureate of la Carte Blanche Photographique du PSG

    Nominated by la Bourse du Talent de la BNF

    2016

    Bourse de Recherche et de Création Internationale obtenue pour passer un semestre à l’International Center of Photography à New-York

    Nominated for the Madame Figaro/Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie award

    Premier Prix du Festival Them’Art – Toulon

    2015

    Residency Studio Vortex with Antoine d’Agata-Arles

    2014

    Residency Carpe Diem Arte e pesquisa – Lisbonne

    RECHERCHE/ ENSEIGNEMENT

    2019

    Invited with Frank Lamy and Damien Dellile to discuss “L’autre…l’homme” at the Monnaie de Paris, organized by Aware (23 janvier 2019)

    2018

    Invited to the Parsons School by the jury

    2017

    Invited by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux to create workshops at the Archives Nationales

    2016

    Part of a conference cycle around feminism in art – CAPC Bordeaux

    Participation aux jurys d’admission à l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie

    Intervention as a guest artist as part of a teaching program in Center Pénitentiaire Toulon La Farlède

    2015

    « Débandade » Mémoire de Master II under the supervision of Fabien Vallos – École nationale supérieure de la Photographie – Arles

    2014

    History of Art teacher at the elementary school of Paul Vaillant-Couturier – Romainville (93)

    • Group show curated by Camille Bardin
      Faire Corps
      10/21/2021 - 12/18/2021