This special session will bring together seven contemporary French women photographers and visual artists.
Cosmology
Crossed paths of seven women photographers today
About
While they do not form a “collective,” they constitute an organic constellation born of multiple, fruitful collaborations over the past fifteen years, both in France and abroad: Marcelline Delbecq, Éléonore False, Marina Gadonneix, Agnès Geoffray, Constance Nouvel, Aurélie Pétrel and Stéphanie Solinas.
In conversation with Pauline Vermare, Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, each artist will present her individual work while exploring the creative connections and affinities that unite them.
Courtesy of Stéphanie Solinas& Jean-Kenta Gauthier, Paris
With Pauline Vermare
Pauline Vermare is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum. She was formerly the cultural director of Magnum Photos NY, and a curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP). She previously held positions at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.
Her recent publications include I’m So Shappy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now (Aperture/Arles, 2024), Akihiko Okamura, The Memories of Others (Atelier EXB / Prestel, 2024) and Un Désir absolu de mémoire (Atelier EXB, 2025). She sits on the Boards of the Saul Leiter Foundation and of the Dotation Catherine Leroy.
Marcelline Delbecq
Marcelline Delbecq is an artist and writer. Her practice has moved away from material production as such to focus on the potential of writing to create images. Her texts are regularly presented in readings and recordings, and her latest book,Envolée, was published by Sun/sun in 2023.
Born in 1977, Marcelline Delbecq lives and works in Paris.
Agnès Geoffray
From the perspective of an iconographer, Agnès Geoffray probes, develops, and reactivates images. Through staging, reactivation, or photographic associations, she reveals a universe of latent and mysterious tensions.
At the crossroads of photography, text, and performance, her work explores the survival of archetypal gestures drawn from a heterogeneous repertoire. It engages with the poetic and political dimensions of images. Often originating from archival sources, her projects emerge through a process of fictionalized reconstruction and question the idea of reminiscence. She replays and reinvents the images that surround us daily, inviting the viewer to reconsider their own memory.
Trained at the Écoles des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and Paris, she has been in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and a fellow at the Villa Médicis in Rome. Solo exhibitions at Rencontres d’Arles, MBAL Le Locle, Contretype, Frac Auvergne, Le Point du Jour, and the Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France have been complemented by group shows at Bozar, the Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume, and MAC VAL. She has also exhibited internationally at the Kunsthalle Wien, Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne. She is represented by Galerie Maubert and published by La Lettre volée and Textuel.
Marina Gadonneix
Marina Gadonneix is a French artist. Closely aligned with research that questions the world, her images blur the boundaries between the creation of imagination and the production of representation. Challenging the possibilities of perception, her work unfolds a poetry of abstraction, revealing and dialoguing between what is seen and what remains unseen.
Her work has been exhibited across Europe, the United States, and Canada (Rencontres d’Arles, Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, Musée d'art de Joliette, Le Point du Jour, the Grand Palais, Jeu de Paume, Centre Pompidou…).
Among her publications, which mark the chronology of her series, are Landscapes/Blackout (2011), The House that Burns Every Day (2012), After the Image (2015), Phénomènes (2019), Tornades (2021), and Laboratoires/Observatoires (2023).
Éléonore False
Éléonore False (born 1987) is a French artist who graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and Olivier-de-Serres in textile design.
Her work begins with collage, assembling fragments of images drawn from diverse fields—such as the body, dance, medicine, the vegetal and animal worlds, sciences, and decorative arts. These elements are then enlarged, removed from their original context, and transformed through various techniques including printing, ceramics, sculpture, and weaving. Her practice explores everyday gestures and interrogates domestic space, which she views not as a constraint but as a source of creativity and hallucination.
She has exhibited in France and internationally, including at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, MRAC Occitanie, Frac Sud, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, and the Museo Experimental el Eco in Mexico. Her works are held in public collections such as Frac Sud, Hauts-de-France and Île-de-France, the MEP, MAC VAL and Lafayette Anticipation.
Constance Nouvel
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2010, Constance Nouvel explores photography through a plastic and experimental language. She was awarded the Réinventer la photographie commission in 2025 and recently received the Prix du Bal / Adagp, which will result in an exhibition and a book in 2027.
Aurélie Pétrel
Aurélie Pétrel is a photographer and author whose practice unfolds over time through field investigations with a systemic, non-expert approach. Her works, situated between experimentation and traditional photographic prints, examine the viewer’s relationship to places.
Stéphanie Solinas
Stéphanie Solinas is a visual artist, writer and researcher who explores the weaving of the visible and invisible, the rational and the belief systems that shape identities, from the birth of photography to AI. Her work has been exhibited at SFMOMA, the Getty Museum, FOAM, the Centre Pompidou, and Jeu de Paume. She has published L’Être plus and Guide du Pourquoi Pas? (Seuil).
Program - Paris Photo 2025
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