Elsa Leydier 1988
Lives in Rio de Janeiro / Lyon. Works in Rio de Janeiro / Lyon.
Represented by:
Galerie Caroline O'Breen
Elsa Leydier (1988, France) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She won the Prix Ruinart Paris Photo 2019 and is the winner of the Dior Prize for Photography for Young Talents 2019. In Brazil, where she moved in 2015, the young artist diverts the political charge of iconic images.
In Plátanos con Platino and Braços verdes e olhos Cheios de Asas, Leydier modifies the colors of her photographs made in Latin America to produce a "pop" and luminous image, bringing to its surface the richness of biodiversity. By an aesthetic that borrows its codes to luxury, Elsa Leydier revalorizes a territory and inhabitants delivered to land speculation. She joins the wonder of the poet Garcia Marquez who wrote in 1954 when he discovered this region: "If someone had the idea to sow a banana tree, the fruits would have grown loaded with platinum nuggets."
With Les Echappées, Elsa Leydier rewrites, through poetry, socio-economic maps. On these cards, of which it erases the numerical mentions and the legend, it retains only tasks red blood, the imprint of evils recorded (a reference to modern slavery, and the assassinations of Indians ...).
Her most recent project, Brazil: System error (Elenão), is executed in the form of lightboxes in wood and glass imitating a mobile phone. They are silent witnesses of the presidential campaign 2.0 led by Jair Bolsonaro, current president of Brazil, in the din of social networks. At the end of 2018, during the presidential campaign, Leydier typed the word "Brazil" into a search engine. She got a series of "clichés" images of untroubled Brazil. By inserting the text of the invectives pronounced by the candidate Bolsonaro in the text code of each of the images, the artist modifies the digital DNA of the "beautiful image" and creates a visual bug (glitching technique). But is it really the artist who damages the image of Brazil?
In Plátanos con Platino and Braços verdes e olhos Cheios de Asas, Leydier modifies the colors of her photographs made in Latin America to produce a "pop" and luminous image, bringing to its surface the richness of biodiversity. By an aesthetic that borrows its codes to luxury, Elsa Leydier revalorizes a territory and inhabitants delivered to land speculation. She joins the wonder of the poet Garcia Marquez who wrote in 1954 when he discovered this region: "If someone had the idea to sow a banana tree, the fruits would have grown loaded with platinum nuggets."
With Les Echappées, Elsa Leydier rewrites, through poetry, socio-economic maps. On these cards, of which it erases the numerical mentions and the legend, it retains only tasks red blood, the imprint of evils recorded (a reference to modern slavery, and the assassinations of Indians ...).
Her most recent project, Brazil: System error (Elenão), is executed in the form of lightboxes in wood and glass imitating a mobile phone. They are silent witnesses of the presidential campaign 2.0 led by Jair Bolsonaro, current president of Brazil, in the din of social networks. At the end of 2018, during the presidential campaign, Leydier typed the word "Brazil" into a search engine. She got a series of "clichés" images of untroubled Brazil. By inserting the text of the invectives pronounced by the candidate Bolsonaro in the text code of each of the images, the artist modifies the digital DNA of the "beautiful image" and creates a visual bug (glitching technique). But is it really the artist who damages the image of Brazil?
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Elsa Leydier (b. 1988, France)
Education
École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie | Arles (FR) | 2012 - 2015
Solo exhibitions
2020
Heatwave (upcoming) | with Prix de la Maison Ruinart | Art Genève | Geneva, Switzerland
Heatwave (upcoming) | with Prix de la Maison Ruinart | ARCOmadrid | Madrid, Spain
Transatlántica (upcoming) | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019
Transatlántica | Intervalle Gallery | Paris, France
Transatlántica | with Résonance of Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon | Poltred | Lyon, France
Paris Photo Fair 2019 | with Galerie Intervalle | Grand Palais | Paris, France
Heatwave | with Prix de la Maison Ruinart / Paris Photo 2019 | Grand Palais | Paris, France
2018
Like a Thunderstorm Over a Landscape | ATA | San Francisco, USA
2017
Plátanos con platino | Alliance Française de Bogotá | Bogotá, Colombia
Group exhibitions
2020
Heatwave (upcoming) | with Prix de la Maison Ruinart | Kyotographie | Kyoto, Japan
Unseen Photo Fair (upcoming) | with Galerie Intervalle | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Les Mauvaises Herbes Résisteront (upcoming) | Sur un commissariat d’Alice Santiago | CACN Centre d’Art – Espace Villary | Nîmes, France
Genesis (upcoming) | Encontros da Imagem Festival | Braga, Portugal
Paris Experiences Photo X RATP | Paris metro stations | Paris, France
100% | Grande Halle | La Villette | Paris, France
Cell Signals | with Answers Without Words | SF CameraWork | San Francisco, USA
2019
Dior – The Art of Color | Kosmo | Neuilly, France
Dior – The Art of Color | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
What’s Going on in Brazil? | Fondation Manuel Rivera Ortiz |Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
Lucie Foundation Group Show | Month of Photo LA | Arena 1 Gallery | Santa Monica, USA
Wall | with The Smell of Dus | FotoHaus | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
Fotografia, Amor e Luta | with Revista Old | Salvador, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba & Porto Alegre, Brazil
Retour de résidence | Hameau des Baux | Baux de Provence, France
2018
Atlas of Forms | Soft Power Palace Festival | Stuttgart, Germany
Photographie émergente France / Brésil | Paris Photo | Galerie Collection Privée | Paris, France
Unseen Photo Fair | with galerie Intervalle | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Answers Without Words | Cascade Paragon Gallery / Columbia River Correctional Institution | Portland, USA
Nature Within | Galerie Prints | London, UK
Novos Protagonismos | Valongo Festival Internacional da Imagem | Santos, Brazil
Du bonheur et rien d’autre | L’Atelier du Midi | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
#FORATEMER #POESIAFICA | curated by The Smell of Dust | FotoHaus | Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France / Berlin, Germany
Voyage à Nantes | with Festival Circulation(s) | Nantes, France
Lucie Foundation Group Show | Month of Photo LA | Los Angeles, USA
Territorios Imaginarios | PHotoEspaña | Madrid, Spain
Festival Circulation(s) | Le Cent-Quatre | Paris, France
The Earth Issue | The House of St Barnabas | London, UK
2017
Foto Féminas Screening | Just Another Photo Festival | Kolkata, India
Braços Verdes e Olhos Cheios de Asas | At the invitation of Revista OLD | Festival Valongo | Santos, Brazil
#FORATEMER #POESIAFICA | screening curated by The Smell of Dust | São Paulo, Brazil
#FORATEMER #POESIAFICA | Screening curated by The Smell of Dust | FotoHaus | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
2016
Fuori Serranda | LO.FT | Lecce, Italy
Jardim Suspenso | Morro da Babilônia | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Réserves | L’Atelier du Midi | Arles, France
Interstices | Festival MAP Toulouse | Toulouse, France
Échange de vues / Conversations Photographiques d’Olympus | Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire | Paris, France
2015
Histoires parallèles | FRAC PACA | Marseille, France
Interstices | ENSP 2015 Graduate Students Exhibition | Galerie Agnès b. | Paris, France
Olympus engage une Conversation Photographique | Photographic Conversation with Paolo Woods, | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Couvent Saint Césaire | Arles, France
Work In Progress | Église Saint Julien | Arles, France
Vigilance | Voies Off Screening | Palais de l’Archevêché | Arles, France
OFF the Wall ON the Walls | Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation | Arles, France
Échappées Belles | Palais de l’Archevêché | Arles, France
La Double vie des images | Galerie Le Réverbère | Lyon, France
2014
J’ai sondé les actes et les rêves | L’Atelier du Midi | Arles, France
A Process | curated by Der Greif | Höhmannhaus Gallery | Augsburg, Germany
WHY? Part 1 | a collaboration with Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon | Aréna Gallery | Arles, France
Alirandu | L’Atelier du Midi | Arles, France
2013
Décartographie | Musée de la Camargue | Salin de Giraud, France
Décartographie | with Marseille Provence 2013 | Temple d’Arles | Arles, France
La Nuit je mens | Hôtel Arlatan | Arles, France
Artist Residencies
Ruinart | 2019 | Reims, France
Hameau des Baux | 2018 | Arles, France
Alliance Française de Bogotá | 2017 | Colombia
Jardim Suspenso | 2016 | Babilônia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
EAVerão | 2016 | Parque Lage | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Awards | Prizes
Photographic commission CNAP / Jeu de Paume | 2020 | Laureate
Encontros da Imagem Discovery Awards | 2020 | Finalist
Prix Maison Ruinart / Paris Photo | 2019 | Laureate
Dior Emerging Talent Award | 2019 | Laureate
FOAM Talent | 2019 | Finalist
Prix HSBC pour la Photographie | 2018 | Finalist
Concours Olympus/ENSP | 2013 | 1st Prize
Books
2015 | Esgotados | Edition Le Magasin de Jouets
2014 | Alirandu | self-published
Publications | Features
Connaissance des Art #789 | February 2020
FOAM Magazine, Talent Issue #55 | December 2019
Dior, The Art of Color | July 2019
Fisheye Magazine | July-August 2019
Unseen Magazine | September 2018
Famous Aspect #5 | August 2018
American B | Paripé Books | 2017
Captured 52 Journal #2 | December 2017
Gup Magazine #55 | November 2017
Cercle Magazine #5 | April 2017
Archive Collective | The Earth Issue | January 2017
Revista Amarello | December 2016
Scenario Mag | September 2016
Échanges de vues | Éditions Filigranes | 2015
Catalogue des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles 2015 | Actes Sud | 2015
Échappées Belles | Le catalogue des diplômés de l’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie 2015 | Éditions Diaphane | 2015
Off The Wall #7 | Summer 2015
ARCHIVOzine #1 | Spring 2015
Causette #54 | March 2015
Espaces Latinos #281 | Summer 2014
Le Tigre #42 | June 2014
Online
Photo/Foto Mag, Fisheye Magazine, Feature Shoot, Aye Mag, Wallpaper*, Ain’t Bad Magazine, Hi Waterfall, Kaltblut, Photogrvphy, Panorama Journal, Purple, Paper Journal, Impressa Photo, Lenscratch, Light Leaked, Casimir,Urbanautica, Artwort, Photo Archivo, Humble Arts Foundation, Fotografia Magazine, Yet Magazine, Phases Mag, L’Oeil de la Photographie, HBA Magazine, France Culture
Elsa Leydier (b. 1988, France)
Education
École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie | Arles (FR) | 2012 - 2015
Solo exhibitions
2020
Heatwave (upcoming) | with Prix de la Maison Ruinart | Art Genève | Geneva, Switzerland
Heatwave (upcoming) | with Prix de la Maison Ruinart | ARCOmadrid | Madrid, Spain
Transatlántica (upcoming) | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019
Transatlántica | Intervalle Gallery | Paris, France
Transatlántica | with Résonance of Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon | Poltred | Lyon, France
Paris Photo Fair 2019 | with Galerie Intervalle | Grand Palais | Paris, France
Heatwave | with Prix de la Maison Ruinart / Paris Photo 2019 | Grand Palais | Paris, France
2018
Like a Thunderstorm Over a Landscape | ATA | San Francisco, USA
2017
Plátanos con platino | Alliance Française de Bogotá | Bogotá, Colombia
Group exhibitions
2020
Heatwave (upcoming) | with Prix de la Maison Ruinart | Kyotographie | Kyoto, Japan
Unseen Photo Fair (upcoming) | with Galerie Intervalle | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Les Mauvaises Herbes Résisteront (upcoming) | Sur un commissariat d’Alice Santiago | CACN Centre d’Art – Espace Villary | Nîmes, France
Genesis (upcoming) | Encontros da Imagem Festival | Braga, Portugal
Paris Experiences Photo X RATP | Paris metro stations | Paris, France
100% | Grande Halle | La Villette | Paris, France
Cell Signals | with Answers Without Words | SF CameraWork | San Francisco, USA
2019
Dior – The Art of Color | Kosmo | Neuilly, France
Dior – The Art of Color | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
What’s Going on in Brazil? | Fondation Manuel Rivera Ortiz |Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
Lucie Foundation Group Show | Month of Photo LA | Arena 1 Gallery | Santa Monica, USA
Wall | with The Smell of Dus | FotoHaus | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
Fotografia, Amor e Luta | with Revista Old | Salvador, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba & Porto Alegre, Brazil
Retour de résidence | Hameau des Baux | Baux de Provence, France
2018
Atlas of Forms | Soft Power Palace Festival | Stuttgart, Germany
Photographie émergente France / Brésil | Paris Photo | Galerie Collection Privée | Paris, France
Unseen Photo Fair | with galerie Intervalle | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Answers Without Words | Cascade Paragon Gallery / Columbia River Correctional Institution | Portland, USA
Nature Within | Galerie Prints | London, UK
Novos Protagonismos | Valongo Festival Internacional da Imagem | Santos, Brazil
Du bonheur et rien d’autre | L’Atelier du Midi | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
#FORATEMER #POESIAFICA | curated by The Smell of Dust | FotoHaus | Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France / Berlin, Germany
Voyage à Nantes | with Festival Circulation(s) | Nantes, France
Lucie Foundation Group Show | Month of Photo LA | Los Angeles, USA
Territorios Imaginarios | PHotoEspaña | Madrid, Spain
Festival Circulation(s) | Le Cent-Quatre | Paris, France
The Earth Issue | The House of St Barnabas | London, UK
2017
Foto Féminas Screening | Just Another Photo Festival | Kolkata, India
Braços Verdes e Olhos Cheios de Asas | At the invitation of Revista OLD | Festival Valongo | Santos, Brazil
#FORATEMER #POESIAFICA | screening curated by The Smell of Dust | São Paulo, Brazil
#FORATEMER #POESIAFICA | Screening curated by The Smell of Dust | FotoHaus | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Arles, France
2016
Fuori Serranda | LO.FT | Lecce, Italy
Jardim Suspenso | Morro da Babilônia | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Réserves | L’Atelier du Midi | Arles, France
Interstices | Festival MAP Toulouse | Toulouse, France
Échange de vues / Conversations Photographiques d’Olympus | Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire | Paris, France
2015
Histoires parallèles | FRAC PACA | Marseille, France
Interstices | ENSP 2015 Graduate Students Exhibition | Galerie Agnès b. | Paris, France
Olympus engage une Conversation Photographique | Photographic Conversation with Paolo Woods, | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles | Couvent Saint Césaire | Arles, France
Work In Progress | Église Saint Julien | Arles, France
Vigilance | Voies Off Screening | Palais de l’Archevêché | Arles, France
OFF the Wall ON the Walls | Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation | Arles, France
Échappées Belles | Palais de l’Archevêché | Arles, France
La Double vie des images | Galerie Le Réverbère | Lyon, France
2014
J’ai sondé les actes et les rêves | L’Atelier du Midi | Arles, France
A Process | curated by Der Greif | Höhmannhaus Gallery | Augsburg, Germany
WHY? Part 1 | a collaboration with Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon | Aréna Gallery | Arles, France
Alirandu | L’Atelier du Midi | Arles, France
2013
Décartographie | Musée de la Camargue | Salin de Giraud, France
Décartographie | with Marseille Provence 2013 | Temple d’Arles | Arles, France
La Nuit je mens | Hôtel Arlatan | Arles, France
Artist Residencies
Ruinart | 2019 | Reims, France
Hameau des Baux | 2018 | Arles, France
Alliance Française de Bogotá | 2017 | Colombia
Jardim Suspenso | 2016 | Babilônia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
EAVerão | 2016 | Parque Lage | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Awards | Prizes
Photographic commission CNAP / Jeu de Paume | 2020 | Laureate
Encontros da Imagem Discovery Awards | 2020 | Finalist
Prix Maison Ruinart / Paris Photo | 2019 | Laureate
Dior Emerging Talent Award | 2019 | Laureate
FOAM Talent | 2019 | Finalist
Prix HSBC pour la Photographie | 2018 | Finalist
Concours Olympus/ENSP | 2013 | 1st Prize
Books
2015 | Esgotados | Edition Le Magasin de Jouets
2014 | Alirandu | self-published
Publications | Features
Connaissance des Art #789 | February 2020
FOAM Magazine, Talent Issue #55 | December 2019
Dior, The Art of Color | July 2019
Fisheye Magazine | July-August 2019
Unseen Magazine | September 2018
Famous Aspect #5 | August 2018
American B | Paripé Books | 2017
Captured 52 Journal #2 | December 2017
Gup Magazine #55 | November 2017
Cercle Magazine #5 | April 2017
Archive Collective | The Earth Issue | January 2017
Revista Amarello | December 2016
Scenario Mag | September 2016
Échanges de vues | Éditions Filigranes | 2015
Catalogue des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles 2015 | Actes Sud | 2015
Échappées Belles | Le catalogue des diplômés de l’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie 2015 | Éditions Diaphane | 2015
Off The Wall #7 | Summer 2015
ARCHIVOzine #1 | Spring 2015
Causette #54 | March 2015
Espaces Latinos #281 | Summer 2014
Le Tigre #42 | June 2014
Online
Photo/Foto Mag, Fisheye Magazine, Feature Shoot, Aye Mag, Wallpaper*, Ain’t Bad Magazine, Hi Waterfall, Kaltblut, Photogrvphy, Panorama Journal, Purple, Paper Journal, Impressa Photo, Lenscratch, Light Leaked, Casimir,Urbanautica, Artwort, Photo Archivo, Humble Arts Foundation, Fotografia Magazine, Yet Magazine, Phases Mag, L’Oeil de la Photographie, HBA Magazine, France Culture