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Born in 1974, lives and works in Paris.
Visual artist, photographer, Amélie Labourdette obtained her degree in Fine Art from the National Fine Arts School of Nantes. Recipient of numerous research and production grants, her work has been shown in several exhibitions in France and abroad (United Kingdom, China, Georgia, Italy, Germany), and is included in public and private collections. Since 2015, she has been carrying out artistic residencies in Southern Italy, Tunisia and the United States, which allowed her to develop her projects.
In 2016, Amélie won the Sony World Photography Awards in the category Architecture, with the photographic series Empire of Dust.
In 2017, she was awarded a grant supporting contemporary documentary photography by the CNAP, French National Fine Art Center comprising the State Art Collection, for her project Traces of a human occupation carried out in the Gafsa phosphate mining basin, at the gateway to the Tunisian desert.
From 2017 to 2019 she conducted the project KÓSMOS - Plurality of Worlds as a Warburgian library in the United States in the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, South Utah and South Colorado, during two visits: in February 2017 with a Sony grant and in March 2018, following the Fieldwork Art-residency invitation in Marfa Tx from the National Fine Arts School of Nantes.
In 2020, KÓSMOS is selected as one of the 10 finalists for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2020.
In 2021, she joins the Photographic Collection of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) with 5 photographic prints from the KÓSMOS series.
She also carried out the project “A pure spirit grows beneath the bark of stones” during an residency at the New York State Museum’s Paleobotany Collection in Albany, NY.
In 2023, she is welcomed at the Agire_Residenza_Arte residence in Sicily.
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AWARDS / GRANTS
2020 - Nominated for the Louis Roederer DISCOVERY AWARDS 2020 (KÓSMOS)
2018 - Laureate - Grant for the Creation, Pays de la Loire Region (KÓSMOS).
2017 - Laureate - Grant for SUPPORT FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 2017 / CNAP. (Traces of a human occupation)
- Laureate - SONY Grant, for the KÓSMOS Project: USA, 2017.
2016 - Laureate - SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2016 Winner of the Architecture Category (Empire of Dust).
- Shortlisted - KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO, «Conceptual» category (Empire of Dust).
2014 - Laureate - Grant for the creation, Pays de la Loire Region (Empire of Dust).
-Laureate - Individual Support for the Creation / Cultural Affairs of Pays-de-la-loire (DRAC), FR (Empire of Dust).
2004 - Laureate - Visual Arts Prize of the City of Nantes
PUBLIC COLLECTION
2021 Photographic Collection of the Centre National des arts Plastiques-CNAP /5 photographic prints (KOSMOS)
2017 Collection of the Museum / Art lending library of Angers,
2012 Collection of City of Nantes, France.
SOLO SHOWS
2024 - unRepresented by approche, curated by Emilia Genuardi, April 5 to 7, Le Molière, 40 rue de Richelieu, Paris 1, FR.
2023 - Rencontres Photographiques in Lorient / Quand les nuages se taisent: Gallery-Artothèque Pierre Tal-Coat, from October 14 to December 10.
2022 - Un pur esprit s’accroît sous l’écorce des pierres (A pure spirit grows beneath the bark of stones), Michel Journiac Gallery, Sorbonne School of Arts, curated by Gabriela Anco (from November 8 to December 9, 2022), Paris.
2020 - KOSMOS - Plurality of Worlds as Aby Warburgian Library, Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2020 exhibition, Rencontres d’Arles 2020 Edition. Cancelled due to COVID pandemic
2019 - CET AUTRE MONDE QUI EST AUSSI LE NÔTRE, (KOSMOS series), Open School Gallery, curated byThéo-Mario Coppola, Nantes, FR.
- KOSMOS - Plurality of Worlds as Aby Warburgian Library, Le PAD/Collectif Blast, Anger, FR.
2018 - Traces of a human occupation, Le Carré d’Art Gallery, Chartres-de-Bretagne, FR.
- Traces of a human occupation, Chez Arthur et Janine Gallery, Rencontres d’Arles, FR.
2017 - Empire of dust, Thierry Bigaignon Gallery, Paris.
2015 - Empire of dust, RDV Gallery, La Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Nantes, FR.
2014 - Non finito, l’Île Moulinsart Art Center, 72, FR.
2012 - Archipel, The Gallery / Art House, St Herblain, FR.
2009 - Been Here and Gone, Pommeray Hotel, Nantes, FR.
2008 - La Part Manquante, Heidigalerie, Nantes, FR.
GROUP SHOWS
2023 - Lire les lignes du monde, PhotoSaintGermain, Crous gallery, November 2 to 18, curated by Pascal Beausse and Aurélia Marcadier, Paris, FR.
- Concordance des temps, Galerie Robet-Dantec, March 18th to April 29th, Belford, FR.
2019 - RUINS, Meadow Arts, Witley Court, Great Witley, Worcestershire, RU.
- 50JPG, OSMOSCOSMOS, Centre de la Photographie de Genève, Swisland.
2018 - Avant la poussière (Under The Sand#3), LIEU UNIQUE, curated by Marion Zilio, Nantes, FR.
2017 - METAXU, le séjour des formes (Under The Sand #2), B’chira Art Center curated by Marion Zilio and Fatma Cheffi, Tunis, Tunisia.
2017 - Paysage, Fiction de la matière / matière à fiction, Plateforme, curated by Jean-Baptiste Guey, Paris, FR.
- Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK.
- « Nouvelles acquisitions / Regards Croisés », collections of the Angers Museums, Museum «Jean- Lurçat and contemporary tapestry», FR.
2016 - NUCLEUS (Under The Sand #1), L’Atelier, curated byJean-Christophe Arcos, Nantes, FR.
- Satellite Spirite Art Fair/ Antique Future: Thierry Bigaignon Gallery, Marais marais Space, curated byThéo-Mario Coppola, Paris, FR.
2016 - Multiple #6 / Galerie RDV, Nantes, FR.
- Tbilisi photo festival : Night of photography, Géorgia.
- Voyage à Nantes, curated by the Superior School of Fine Arts in Nantes Metropolis, FR.
- Sony World Photography Awards itinerant Exhibition: Spazio Tadini, Milan, Italie ; U Space, Beijing, China, Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany.
- Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK.
- Kolga Tbilisi photo 2016, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Féminisme(s): Eros & Nature: Joseph Antonin Gallery / Chapel of St. Anne, Arles, FR.
2014 - Incarnés de voyages, House of Europe, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2013 - Incarnés de voyages, Le Rez de Chaussée (RDC), Nantes, FR.
2012 - Multiples, Dulcie Septembre Gallery, Nantes, FR.
2009 - 713705, Heidigalerie, Nantes,FR.
- Art fair Cutlog, Heidigalerie, FR.
2008 - Vers une Architecture, Château de la Seilleraye, Carquefou (44), Fr.
2004 - Monter au Jour, Fine Arts Museum, Nantes, FR.
- Où sont les Femmes, Le LIEU UNIQUE, Nantes, FR..
2001 - Pontage, Dulcie Septembre Gallery, Nantes, FR.
RESIDENCY
2023 - Agire_Residenza_Arte, Sicily (August).
2021 - Art-residency at the NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM, Albany NY, USA. (A pure spirit grows beneath the bark of stones).
2018 - Fieldwork Art-residency in Marfa, Texas USA: March 2018 (KÓSMOS). Grant from the Nantes Metropolitan School of Fine Arts.
2017 - Under The Sand / Art-residency at the LIEU UNIQUE, Nantes, FR.
2016 - Art-residency Under the Sand #2, 2106, Gafsa, Tunisia. (Traces of a human occupation)
- Art-residency at the Art Center Island Moulinsart (72), France.
2013 - Art-residency at l’Usine, Tournefeuille /Toulouse Metropolis, France.
2012 - Art-residency at Tbilissi (Géorgia) and at Sarrebruck (Germany).
2009 - Art-residency at The Pommeray Hotel, Nantes.
RADIO
France Culture / Les Carnets de la création by Aude Lavigne : « Les architectures inachevées d’Amélie Labourdette »
PUBLISHING (Catalogues / Books)
2021 - Fieldwork Marfa Texas USA – Dix ans d’expérimentations artistiques, Ed: Les Presses du Réel.
2019 - POST-SCRIPTUM 2, limited edition of 162 cop. Co-published by The(M) éd and Galerie Thierry Bigaignon.
- Catalogue 50JPG, OSMOSCOSMOS, Edition: Photography Center of Geneva, page 66.
2017 - Facing Value: Radical Perspectives from the Art, Edition: Valiz
- Sony World Photography Awards Book 2016, pages 106-109.
2014 - Collective catalog / 10 year of residencies to the Hotel Pommeraye, pages 34-43.
- Catalogue of the Non finito exhibition at the Art Center of Moulinsart Island.
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2022 - Revue 02, Review “ Amélie Labourdette, Un pur esprit s’accroît sous l’écorce des pierres” by Laure Jaumouillé
2021 - D’a, Architecture magazine, N°288, Portfolio Traces of a human occupation. April 2021.
2018 - EcologiK N57, Architecture magazine, Portfolio, March 2018. (Paper)
- TTT Magazine n°VII, Portfolio, February 2018. (Paper)
- AMC, Architecture magazine, article,February 2018. (Paper)
- FISHEYES: Traces of a human occupation, article by Lou Tsatsas.
- ATLAS OF PLACES: Empire of dust portfolio
- AMC: “Amélie Labourdette as archaeologist of the present”, article.
2017 - Monthly Photography (South Korea Magazine), July 2017. (Paper)
- ARCH +, German magazine for architecture and urban planning (August 2016) (Paper)
- LE MONDE : « Rechercher l’esprit du lieu, c’est tenter de saisir une aura qui interpelle la Mémoire »
- Télérama : «Quand la nature reprend ses droits, entre romantisme et apocalypse»
- Point Contemporain (Contemporary Art Review), Empire of dust, Text: Théo-Mario Coppola.
- SLASH : « L’archéologie du présent. »
- Positive magazine, article by Carmen Mc Intosh.
- Le Littéraire, Carnet d’art , articles by Jean-paul Gavard-perret.
- Objectsmag : « Ecomostri italiani fotografati da Amélie Labourdette » , article by Luca Onniboni
- Artpress / Under the Sand / Nucléus, article by Marion Zilio.
2016 - The Spaces / Portfolio - Article by Betty Wood
- Focus numérique / Interview by Nadia Ali Belhadj.
- Gessato magazine / portfolio.
- Dodho magazine / portfolio
- ARPIA (Association de recherche et production d’images en anthropologie et art)
- L’Oeil de la Photographie
- World Photography Organisation / Portfolio
- Fisheye Magazine / Publication : portfolio
- Polka magazine / Article by Alexandra Nawawi.
2015 - Revue 303 N°140 « Ruines et vestiges »: text : Julien Zerbone.2015 (Paper)
- Revue 303 N°138 «Design»: chronicles /Contemporary Art /text: Éva Prouteau, p 80-81. (Paper)
2007 - Revue 303 N°96: «Né à Nantes comme tout le monde» (Paper)
EDUCATION
1995- 2000 DNSEP (Fine Art Master degree ), in the Superior School of Fine Arts in Nantes Metropolis (ESBANM), France.
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FESTIVALS : Video / Cinema (selection)
International Festival of Human Rights in Nantes (2010), Premiers plans Festival, Angers (2009), Premiers plans Festival, Angers (2008), Scopitone, Nantes (2007), Vidéoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrant (2006), Premiers plans Festival, Angers (2005), Ohneszene Festival, Paris (2004), Les films de l’angle mort, Auberive (Haute-Marne) / La longue nuit du court, Nantes / Interzone, Strasbourg (2003), Bandits-Mages Festival, Bourges (2001).
FILMOGRAPHY (selection)
2012
ARCHIPEL, 10 series of filmed tableaux and sound design, sound cooperation Wilfried Nail, Production: Lolab.
Philippe de Champaigne : une restauration exceptionnelle : documentary Co-directed Wilfried Nail, 21 min.
2009 Physiologie de l’effort : documentary ( Co-directed Benjamin Baudet Production Zarlab), 63 min.
2005 L’Antichambre ( Co-directed David Zard, music Tarek Atoui), produced by Scopitone, The ESBANM, The Regional Council of Pays de la Loire, 17 min.
2003 Le désaveu (Co-directed with David Zard) Cut up video, produced by Vidéozarts, 11min.
2002 … mais les enfants avaient cessé de rire…, Cut up video, 12 min.
2001 Leur impatience se confondait avec l’espoir de participer à un cataclysme général, video installation.
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