Victoire Orth is a young French photographer from Lyon based in Paris. Passionate about photography for several years, it was during an escapade in Brussels that she met Gil Rigoulet and became his assistant. A collaboration that turned into a beautiful story of friendship, and today leads Gil to sponsor his assistant in order to raise awareness of her work.
Interested in the relationship to the female body and gender, Victoire Orth develops these questions of identity by photographing herself in her Paris studio with a mirror and a film camera. From time to time, other characters enter this intimate bubble, even if Victoire keeps the self-portrait at the heart of her photography. It is through this journey with herself and others that the Corps à Corps series is born.
| “Met in the chance of life, a glance, words, in a draught of the great square of Brussels, Victoire long as the oyat, the film camera on her hip, the fresh eye of these 18 years doesn’t care about the meanderings of a questioning. She poses to herself, looks into her sensibility and explores this natural light that grazes the skin like an intensity of having to live, her world is her proximity, her gaze is her awareness of building between graphics and emotion. She’s hungry for exacting standards and moves fast…” Gil Rigoulet |
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The exhibition runs from October 7 to November 8, 2021.