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Stéphanie Solinas
Prize winner 2020
In Rome in 1633, Galileo was condemned by the Church for having defended the thesis of heliocentrism. An exemplary figure in the struggle of science against obscurantism, we often forget that Galileo was also the man who expelled from the realm of physics, relegating them to that of subjective illusion, the qualities that are the very essence of the sensory world: colors and sounds, heat, smells, tastes. Thus, he who explains reality by the impossible (the counter-intuitive law of falling bodies) invents modern science, which is entirely centred on matter.
Acting by superimposing temporalities and representations, reviving the porosity between science and faith, between the visible and the invisible, The Unexplained - Revenants explores, from the sensitive experience of bodies, those who populate the sky.
In The Unexplained - Revenants, painted or sculpted bodies haunt living bodies, the stars look down on us, and Galileo, at the time of his trial at the Villa Medici, enters into dialogue with Thérèse de Lisieux, a contemporary saint who is said to have owned a camera that I miraculously borrowed from the Nicéphore Niépce Museum and used under the Roman sky. Like the telescope for diligent stargazers, this wooden folding chamber has become a device for vision, for finding traces of the infinite in the very materiality of things and beings.
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Stéphanie Solinas (1978-) explores the thought processes at work in the act of “seeing”, and the weaving together of the visible and the invisible, science and belief, and the dynamic between Self and Other that shapes our identities. Her field of investigation spans the 19th century to the 21st, from the birth of photography to artificial intelligence.
Since 2014, Stéphanie Solinas has been conducting Les Aveugles éblouis, a research project designed as a cartography of identities, between materialism and transcendence. She anchors her investigations in 3 specific territories: Iceland, Italy and the United States, to create 3 bodies of work - Le Pourquoi Pas?, L'Inexpliqué and Devenir soi-même.
A graduate in photography from ENS Louis Lumière in Paris, with a doctorate in visual arts from the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Solinas was artist-in-residence at the Villa Médicis / Académie française in Rome (2017/18) and at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2018/19).
She is a recipient of the Étant Donnés Franco-American grant for contemporary art, the SCAM prize for experimental work for her short film Ne Me Regarde Pas for the Opéra de Paris / 3e Scène, and the Edouard Barbe prize.
For 5 years, Solinas taught photography at the École des Beaux-Arts de Rouen/Le Havre and at the Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris.
She has published a number of books, including, in October 2020 , the Guide du Pourquoi Pas?
Stéphanie Solinas has had several solo exhibitions in France and abroad: FraenkelLAB and Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, FOAM fotografie museum in Amsterdam, Rencontres d'Arles, Carré d'Art in Nîmes, Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, Société française de photographie, Galerie Gradiva, Fondation La Maison Rouge in Paris, and more. His work can be found in private and public collections, including SF MOMA, Pier 24 Photography in the USA, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Musée d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain PACA, Fonds d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Collection d'art contemporain de la Seine-Saint-Denis, Musée Nicéphore Niepce in France, Musée de l'Elysée in Switzerland, etc.