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A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T
English
- Lise Sarfati has lived and worked in the United States since 2003. She has realized six important series of photographs there. They have been followed by exhibitions and publications. Each of her works makes clear the identity of an approach focused on the intensity of the rapport established with the person photographed, and of that person with the context. A vision in which the individual is environment, a map outlining a perilous cultural geography. The richness of perception is constructed without effects. The compositions are flawless in the simplicity and unity of the image - the style tends to be elementary and clean, avoiding all qualifications, but the traits of each thing and each person trace a hundred thousand folds. The dimension of the interplay of postures is that of a solemn immaturity: the scenery formed by the people and places is the silent crumpling of a dream in which each risks his or her skin. A feminine seduction tinged with fateful coincidences; the beauty of the adolescents looks like a magic spell. Their solitude and strangeness in the world turn the image into an echo chamber inhabited by the photographer, her subject and the viewer.
  The earlier period of a photographic work carried out in Russia (continuously from 1989 to 1999) confirms the tendency of this research. She identifies a very precise and endless psychological spectrum. The projections, the ambitions associated with the immense space, the way in which they compose these figures, play an essential role: the supporting roles are incandescent. A determinism of the heroic, inevitably tragic figure, as if not even we really have another choice.
  
  The New Life (2003). Published by Twin Palms in 2005
  Immaculate (series, 2006-07)
  Austin, Texas (2008). Commission work published by Magnum Photos.
  She (2005-09) Published by Twin Palms in 2012
  Sloane (2009)
  On Hollywood (2009-2010)
  
  Lise Sarfati is represented by Rose Gallery, Los Angeles, and Yossi Milo, New York.
  
  S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G R A P H Y
  
  She Twin Palms Publisher 2012
  Austin, Texas, Magnum Photos, 2008.
  The New Life / La Vie Nouvelle, Lise Sarfati, Twin Palms, 2005.
  Lise Sarfati, Fundación Salamanca Cuidad de Cultura, 2004.
  Acta Est, Lise Sarfati, Phaidon, 2000
French
- Lise Sarfati vit et travaille aux Etats-Unis depuis 2003.
  Six séries importantes y ont été réalisées. Des expositions et des publications (livre, revue) leur font suite. Chacun des travaux précise l'identité d'une approche concentrée sur l'intensité du rapport entretenu avec la personne photographiée, de celle-ci avec le contexte, par le medium d'une image voyante.
  Une lecture où l'individu est environnement, carte dessinant une géographie culturelle périlleuse.
  La richesse sensible se construit de riens, sans effets, dans des compositions impeccables où les traits de chaque chose et de chaque personne sont pourtant cent mille pliures.
  Une solitude gracieuse, des noyades devenues chorégraphies immobiles : la séduction des femmes y est empreinte de fatalité; celle des adolescents comme d'une beauté qui se lit sortilège.
  La dimension du jeu est celle d'une immaturité grave : le décor constitué par les personnes et les lieux est le froissement silencieux d'un rêve où chacun risque sa peau.
  Une période précédente de travail photographique mené en Russie (de manière continue de 1989 à 1999, ponctuellement ensuite) confirme la cohérence vertigineuse de cette recherche d'un spectre psychologique très précis mais sans fin. Des seconds rôles incandescents. Les projections, les ambitions associées à l'espace immense, la façon dont elles composent des figures y joue un rôle essentiel. Un déterminisme de la figure héroïque, comme si, nous non plus, nous n'avions pas vraiment d'autre choix.
  
  The new Life (2003). Publié aux éditions Twin Palms en 2005
  Immaculate (2006-2007)
  Austin Texas (2008). Fashion Magazine publié par Magnumphotos.
  She (2005-2009) Publié aux éditions Twin Palms en 2012
  Sloane (2009)
  On Hollywood (2009-2010)
  
  Lise Sarfati est représentée par Yossi Milo Gallery, New York et Rose Gallery, Los Angeles.
  
  B I B L I O G R A P H I E
  
  She Twin Palms Publisher 2012
  Austin, Texas, Magnum Photos, 2008.
  The New Life / La Vie Nouvelle, Lise Sarfati, Twin Palms, 2005.
  Lise Sarfati, Fundación Salamanca Cuidad de Cultura, 2004.
  Acta Est, Lise Sarfati, Phaidon, 2000
B I O G R A P H Y
- L I S E   S A R F A T I   B I O G R A P H Y
  
  Born 1958
  
  Resides Paris, France
  
  Education MA in Russian Studies, Sorbonne, Paris, France
  
  S E L E C T E D  S O L O  E X H I B I T I O N S
  
  2014
  Lise Sarfati - Bibiliotèque Nationale de France, BNF Paris, France. Autumn 2014
  
  2012
  Lise Sarfati - On Hollywood, Yossi Milo Gallery, September 6 - October 13
  Lise Sarfati - SHE, Brancolini Grimaldi London, UK. February 2 - March 17
  Lise Sarfati - On Hollywood, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA. February 25 - March 26
  Lise Sarfati - SHE, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA. April 2 - May 8
  
  2011
  Lise Sarfati - The New Life, Magnum Gallery Paris, France. March 17 - April 30
  
  2009
  Lise Sarfati-Austin, Texas- Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden. September 4-October 18
  Lise Sarfati - Austin, Texas - Brancolini Grimaldi Galleria Roma, Italy. May 8 - June 14
  
  2008
  Lise Sarfati - Recent works - Le loft Sévigné Paris, France. Nov 9 - Nov 16
  Rough, Cold and Close : A Russian Poem. Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA. Oct 24 - Nov 29
  Lise Sarfati - Austin, Texas - Fashion Magazine, Maison Rouge Paris, France. Oct 7
  Lise Sarfati, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italy. Sept 6 - Oct 19
  The New Life, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Dudelange, Luxembourg. June 25 - August 31
  The New Life, Center of Contemporary Art « Vinzavod » for the Seventh International
  Month of Photography “Photobiennale” Moscow, Russia. March 21 - April 27
  
  2007
  The New Life, FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. May 25 - July 8
  The New Life, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland. Sept 1 - Nov 10
  
  2006
  The New Life, UC Riverside California Museum of Photography, USA. August 5 - October 7
  La Vie Nouvelle Lise Sarfati, Rencontres Internationales d’Arles, France. July 7 - Sept 19
  The New Life, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA. April 1 - May 30
  Lise Sarfati Retrospective Nicolaj Center of Contemporary Art, Kopenhagen, Danemark. Jan 27 - 28 March
  
  2005
  Lise Sarfati The New Life, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA. Oct 20 - Nov 26
  La Vie Nouvelle, Museo de San Telmo, San Sebastien, Spain. Sept 16 - Oct 16
  Lise Sarfati American series, The Photographer’s Gallery London, UK. June 16 - July 31
  
  2004
  Lise Sarfati, Domus Artium Centro del Arte Salamanca, Spain. Oct 16 - Dec 5
  
  2002
  Lise Sarfati, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France. January 23 - April 7
  Lise Sarfati Post Factum, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
  
  1997
  Musée Nicephore Niepce, Lise Sarfati, Prix Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France. Nov 29 - Feb 2
  
  1996
  Lise Sarfati Prix Niepce, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France. Sept 17 - Oct 21
  
  S E L E C T E D  G R O U P  E X H I B I T I O N S
  
  2010
  Triennale di Milano, Disquieting Images, curated by Germano Celant and Melissa Harris.
  October. 19 - January 9th 2011.
  She : In Her Teens and Twenties, University Art Gallery at San Diego State University, California, USA.
  September 20 - December 4, 2010.
  Les Jeunes Deauvillaises, Club 2010, commission work of the city of Deauville, France.
  October 30 - November 30
  Never Just Looking, curated by Thomas Zander and Valerie Fougeirol with Magnum photographers.
  Forum für Fotografie, Koln, Germany. 4 september- 17 october 2010
  Never Just Looking, curated by Thomas Zander. Magnum Gallery, Paris, France.
  22 may - 30 july
  Selected Works, Magnum Gallery, Paris, France.
  January 5 - February 2
  
  2009
  SFMOMA, Picturing Modernity. San Francisco California, USA. September 12 - December 20
  Staff Picks, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA. October 10 - December 10
  Weird Beauty, International Center of Photography ICP, New York, January 16 - May 3
  
  2008
  The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel,
  Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA. Sept 27 - Febuary 01 2009
  Réfléchir le monde, La Centrale Electrique, European Center for Contemporary Art Bruxelles, Belgium
  October 15 - January 11. 2009
  
  2007
  Easy Rider, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA. July 11 - Sept 8
  June Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA. June 7 - August 17
  Women of Many Faces, Isabelle Huppert. Fotomuseum Der Haag, The Netherlands. April 7 - June 17.
  Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy. December 6/06 - March 3/07
  Euro Visions, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgique. March 8 - July 01
  
  2006
  Women of Many Faces, Isabelle Huppert. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art,
  Long Island City, USA. Oct 30 - Dec 5
  Gallery C/O Berlin, Germany. March 1- April 30
  Botanic Garden, Madrid, Spain.
  Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan. July 1 - August 8
  Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France. Feb 4 - Feb 25
  Euro Visions, Milan, Italie. January 12 - February 12
  Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hunagry. June 9 - August 30
  Zamec, Warsaw, Poland. Oct 9 - Nov 26
  
  2005
  Euro Visions, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Sept 14 - Oct 17
  
  2001
  Fondation Huis Marseille Oublier l’exposition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  C O L L E C T I O N S
  
  Harry Ransom Center. University of Texas at Austin, USA
  SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA
  Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
  LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA
  Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA
  Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
  Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
  Bouwfonds Kunststichting, Netherlands
  Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
  Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
  Fondation ABN AMRO pour la Photographie, Paris, France
  Musée Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
  Fondation Enrique ORDÓÑEZ, Spain
  Collection Michael Wilson, London, UK
  Lhoist, Belgium
  
  M O N O G R A P H S
  
  2012 She, Lise Sarfati Twin Palms Publishers
  2008 Lise Sarfati, Austin Texas, Fashion Magazine
  2005 The New Life La Vie Nouvelle, Lise Sarfati Twin Palms Publisher.
  2004 Lise Sarfati, Fundacion Salamanca Cuidad de Cultura.
  2000 Acta Est, Lise Sarfati Phaidon.
  
  G R A N T S  A N D  A W A R D S
  
  1996
  Prix Niepce, Paris, France
  Infinity Award, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
  Villa Médicis Hors les Murs, Paris, France
  
  1995
  FIACRE Ministère de la Culture, Paris, France
  
  1994
  Prime à la qualité ; « C'est moi, c'est Roger » Centre National du Cinéma, Paris, France
  
  F I L M S
  
  1994
  C'est moi, c'est Roger
  
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Born	1958

Resides	Paris, France

Education	MA in Russian Studies, Sorbonne, Paris, France