Charlotte Bovy

Charlotte Bovy lives and works in Paris.

After studying theater she turned to photography. His first images reveal immediately a sensitivity for black and white and question our relationship to time and especially to memory.

For several years she photographs damaged, empty, forgotten places.

In 2010, she turned to the scenography; this is again, as with photography, to engage in a dialogue with what surrounds us, to direct the eye, to build a frame. In her latest series entitled "Fragment (s)", she presents silver photographs taken at Villa Medici in Rome in 2016. "I wanted to capture these iconic trees of the Académie de France. These keepers of the harmony of the place go back for some in the time of Ingres. " Shortly after shooting, for safety reasons, seven of his trees were felled. "Photography has something to do with the resurrection. Said Roland Barthes. This series also revolves around an aesthetic research: re-frame the image, re-interpret, re-see differently, re-compose.

Here photography is a matter to rework, constantly. From there, any new construction is possible: a new look, a new image, a new story.

Each photograph is drawn on watercolor paper (very) fine and makes the image tend towards the drawing.