Valérie Frossard's work questions self-narrative: identity, stereotypes, intimacy. Her images are constructed in collaboration with the people she photographs, taking detours into fiction and symbolism. She develops participatory processes, co-construction being a recurring motif in her creative work. In a performative approach, the photographer frequently includes herself in her images; the staged body - her own as well as others - is the main subject of her work. She invests the liminal space offered by the photographic medium between reality and fiction, truth and lie, possible and impossible.
contact
valerie@valeriefrossard.com
+33 6 59 72 23 82
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DESIGN & code
Elodie Correia
elodiecorreia.com
Biography
Born in Geneva, Switzerland.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Valérie Frossard studied photography at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva, and then at the School of Design (UPenn) in Philadelphia. Alongside her personal work, she collaborates with performing arts companies (dance, contemporary circus, theater, music) and various cultural institutions.
For the past fifteen years, she has been involved in educational workshops, which provide opportunities for encounters at the heart of her creative work. She pays particular attention to "vulnerable" audiences (interventions in Social centers, homes for children with special needs, detention centers, middle schools, homes for teenagers at risk, children's hospitals, mental health establishments, etc.).
Since 2017, alongside social science researcher Sylvia Garcia Delahaye (HETS Geneva), the photographer has been using her medium to carry out participatory art-based research assignments in Switzerland. Valérie Frossard is a regular guest lecturer on "Photography as a mediation tool in the field of social work" for graduate students in social work (HETS Geneva and Lausanne, IUT Tours).
AWARDS
2022 DJury distinction, FNS Contest of scientific images (Switzerland) for five images of the PABR project «Ma Voix en images».
2021 Selection of an image of the series «Autofictions» for the "Mur Pignon" program at the Centre Tignous d'art contemporain in Montreuil.
2020 Winner Prix Territoire(s), InSeineSaintDenis, presidentof jury Denis Darzacq.
2018 Jury’s Selection, Prix Virginia.
expositions (sélection)
2024 “Traversée”, Halle des 4 saisons, La Mosson, Montpellier
2023 “Traversée”, CIRCA, Pôle national cirque, Auch
2022 “Traversée”, Le Manège, Reims
2021 “Mur Pignon”, Centre Tignous d’art contemporain’s program,
rue du Capitaine Dreyfus, Montreuil
2020 “Autofictions”, curatrice Raphaële Bertho, MC93 Bobigny
2019 “Enfants Reporters”, University of Geneva and Quai Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 “Laboratoire des Imaginaires / Paysages familiers”, with Lola Reboud,
curator Fabienne Bideaud, National Archives, Pierrefitte-Sur-Seine
2018 “In Absentia”, Château d’Aubenas, Ardèche
2018 “Habille-moi”, Biennale de la danse, CCM Limoges
2018 “Territoire(s) de rencontre”, with Lola Reboud, Espace Utrillo, Pierrefitte-Sur-Seine
2015 “Secrets”, Lil’Art, Théâtre du Garde-Chasse, Les Lilas
2014 “)e(”, avec Kim Lan N’Guyen Thi, Galerie 59 Rivoli, Paris
2013 “Expressions libres”, Paris XIII University, Villetaneuse
2011 “Emergency Room”, group show, curator Thierry
Geoffroy/Colonel, European Culture Congress, Wroclaw, Pologne
2008 “Emergency Room”, group show, curator Thierry
Geoffroy/Colonel, Galerie Taiss, Paris
residencies
2021 Théâtre Louis Aragon, Tremblay-en-France, Carte blanche
2018-2019 Artiste InSitu, touring residency in middle schools of 93, CD93
2016-2018 CLEA (Contrat Local d’Éducation Artistique), Pierrefitte-sur-Seine mandat DRAC Île-de-France, CD93
2016 CLEA, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Créteil
2014 CLEA, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Les Mureaux, Meulan, Yvelines
2013 Université Paris XIII, projet “Scènes Ouvertes”, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Villetaneuse
2013 Les Bricoleurs d’Avenir#4, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Villetaneuse
2012 Les Bricoleurs d’Avenir#3, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Terres de France (Villepinte, Sevran, Tremblay-en-France
2012 Les Bricoleurs d’Avenir#2, Cie MOOD/RV6K, La Courneuve
2010 Les Bricoleurs d’Avenir#1, Cie MOOD/RV6K, WIP Villette
à propos
Valérie Frossard's work questions self-narrative: identity, stereotypes, intimacy. Her images are constructed in collaboration with the people she photographs, taking detours into fiction and symbolism. She develops participatory processes, co-construction being a recurring motif in her creative work. In a performative approach, the photographer frequently includes herself in her images; the staged body - her own as well as others - is the main subject of her work. She invests the liminal space offered by the photographic medium between reality and fiction, truth and lie, possible and impossible.
contact
valerie@valeriefrossard.com
+33 6 59 72 23 82
instagram
Biography
Born in Geneva, Switzerland.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Valérie Frossard studied photography at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva, and then at the School of Design (UPenn) in Philadelphia. Alongside her personal work, she collaborates with performing arts companies (dance, contemporary circus, theater, music) and various cultural institutions.
For the past fifteen years, she has been involved in educational workshops, which provide opportunities for encounters at the heart of her creative work. She pays particular attention to "vulnerable" audiences (interventions in Social centers, homes for children with special needs, detention centers, middle schools, homes for teenagers at risk, children's hospitals, mental health establishments, etc.).
Since 2017, alongside social science researcher Sylvia Garcia Delahaye (HETS Geneva), the photographer has been using her medium to carry out participatory art-based research assignments in Switzerland. Valérie Frossard is a regular guest lecturer on "Photography as a mediation tool in the field of social work" for graduate students in social work (HETS Geneva and Lausanne, IUT Tours).
AWARDS
2022 DJury distinction, FNS Contest of scientific images (Switzerland) for five images of the PABR project «Ma Voix en images».
2021 Selection of an image of the series «Autofictions» for the "Mur Pignon" program at the Centre Tignous d'art contemporain in Montreuil.
2020 Winner Prix Territoire(s), InSeineSaintDenis, presidentof jury Denis Darzacq.
2018 Jury’s Selection, Prix Virginia.
expositions (sélection)
2024 “Traversée”, Halle des 4 saisons, La Mosson, Montpellier
2023 “Traversée”, CIRCA, Pôle national cirque, Auch
2022 “Traversée”, Le Manège, Reims
2021 “Mur Pignon”, Centre Tignous d’art contemporain’s program,
rue du Capitaine Dreyfus, Montreuil
2020 “Autofictions”, curatrice Raphaële Bertho, MC93 Bobigny
2019 “Enfants Reporters”, University of Geneva and Quai Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 “Laboratoire des Imaginaires / Paysages familiers”, with Lola Reboud,
curator Fabienne Bideaud, National Archives, Pierrefitte-Sur-Seine
2018 “In Absentia”, Château d’Aubenas, Ardèche
2018 “Habille-moi”, Biennale de la danse, CCM Limoges
2018 “Territoire(s) de rencontre”, with Lola Reboud, Espace Utrillo, Pierrefitte-Sur-Seine
2015 “Secrets”, Lil’Art, Théâtre du Garde-Chasse, Les Lilas
2014 “)e(”, avec Kim Lan N’Guyen Thi, Galerie 59 Rivoli, Paris
2013 “Expressions libres”, Paris XIII University, Villetaneuse
2011 “Emergency Room”, group show, curator Thierry
Geoffroy/Colonel, European Culture Congress, Wroclaw, Pologne
2008 “Emergency Room”, group show, curator Thierry
Geoffroy/Colonel, Galerie Taiss, Paris
residencies
2021 Théâtre Louis Aragon, Tremblay-en-France, Carte blanche
2018-2019 Artiste InSitu, touring residency in middle schools of 93, CD93
2016-2018 CLEA (Contrat Local d’Éducation Artistique), Pierrefitte-sur-Seine mandat DRAC Île-de-France, CD93
2016 CLEA, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Créteil
2014 CLEA, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Les Mureaux, Meulan, Yvelines
2013 Université Paris XIII, projet “Scènes Ouvertes”, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Villetaneuse
2013 Les Bricoleurs d’Avenir#4, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Villetaneuse
2012 Les Bricoleurs d’Avenir#3, Cie MOOD/RV6K, Terres de France (Villepinte, Sevran, Tremblay-en-France
2012 Les Bricoleurs d’Avenir#2, Cie MOOD/RV6K, La Courneuve
2010 Les Bricoleurs d’Avenir#1, Cie MOOD/RV6K, WIP Villette
DESIGN & code
Elodie Correia
elodiecorreia.com