Resonances

Man’s relationship with his surroundings is at the center of Valérie Jouve’s work. Her choreography of figures in an urban environment brings to mind pictures of classic street photography yet Jouve has developed fictitious “areas” at the junction of her topographic interests and her photographic research on human presence. Genres and photographic methods gradually become interlocked in her works, prompting fundamental questions about photographic representations. Valérie Jouve, born in Saint Etienne in 1964, studied ethnology at the University of Lyon/Bron before turning her attention to photography at the end of the 1980s. She graduated from the National School for Photography in Arles, France, in 1990, and since then has shown her photographic work in international group and solo exhibitions. Since 2003 she has become increasingly involved in film projects. Jouve lives and works in Paris.