Anne-Marie Louvet's work explores human reality, focusing on the expression of its most intimate aspects. Her projects embrace a variety of contexts including housing, work, urban development and other cultures. In her work, she continuously strives to capture the essence of the surrounding cultural or social identity in an effort to present a living chronicle of people in their environment.
She is concerned with creating an awareness of social issues through artistic and documentary photography. Her approach implies a strong commitment to the subject, often requiring a relatively long period to develop the necessary confidence with the people she photographs and works with.
She sees her photographic projects as complete creations, presented in different ways depending on the subject and context. As such, she has, over the past fifteen years, often taken on both the photographic work and the overall design of the exhibition space, adapting it to the content of her photographs and, in some cases, integrating texts, lighting, audio or video.
www.annemarielouvet.fr/
Exhibitions
Mois de la Photo – Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2001
Museum d’Histoire Naturelle – Lyon, France, 2001
Le Parvis – Tarbes, France, 1999
Centre National d’Art Contemporain / Le Magasin – Grenoble, France, 1998
Musée Dauphinois – Grenoble, France, 1998
Palermofoto’97 – Palermo, Italy, 1997
Mois de la Photo – Paris, France, 1994
Galleria Gottardo – Lugano, Italy , 1994
Centre de la Photographie – Geneva, Switzerland, 1990
The Photographic Museum of Finland – Helsinki, Finland, 1990
Galerie Vrais Rêves – Lyon, France, 1983
Residencies
Videographe – Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2005
Galerie Clark – Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2004
Mois de la Photo – Galerie Clark – Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2001
Collections
Centre de la Photographie (Geneva, Switzerland)
Polaroid Collection (USA)
Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, France)
B.P.I. of the Georges Pompidou Centre (Paris, France)
Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, France)
Museum d’Histoire Naturelle (Lyon, France)
Arthothèques (Grenoble, Tarbes, France)
Conferences
Presentation at the "Institute de Arte" – Belem, Brazil, 2001
Presentation at the "1st Biennial Conference on Photography and Ethnology" organised by the Conservatory of Ethnology of Haute-Provence – Mane, France, 1997
Presentation at the Photo 98 "Slipstream" 6th National Photography Conference: "Reinventing an issue, the photographer in the community" (curator Val Williams) – York, Great Britain, 1997
Lecture at the National Centre of Contemporary Art (Le Magasin) in Grenoble, France, as part of a project entitled "Lieux", a reflection on the relation between art and location, 1995