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Still Life with Pearl

Photograph
2014 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Belin is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. She is primarily a photographer, but has also worked with video and live performance. Belin’s early work was inspired by photography as a medium, leading her to explore its aesthetic potential. Belin’s more recent work has embraced new technology, blurring the lines between illusion and reality whilst experimenting with different processes and techniques.

Belin studied at École Beaux-arts de Versailles from 1983-5, and then at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges where she obtained the French higher national diploma in visual expression in 1988. She has held several solo exhibitions including a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2015. Her work is held in numerous public collections, including the Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was awarded the Prix Pictet in 2015 with her series Still Life, and made an Officer of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 2017.

Using cheap disposable objects arranged by the artist in her studio, the ‘Still Life’ compositions play on ideas of consumerism and mass consumption within the framework of photographic traditions.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleStill Life with Pearl (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pigment print mounted on Diabond
Brief description
Photograph by Valérie Belin, 'Still Life with Pearl' from the series 'Still Life', 2014
Physical description
Large colour still life photograph with a range of plastic objects and flowers. A skull and black pearls sit in the centre of the picture.
Dimensions
  • Frame height: 135cm
  • Width: 171cm
Credit line
Given by Valérie Belin
Summary
Belin is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. She is primarily a photographer, but has also worked with video and live performance. Belin’s early work was inspired by photography as a medium, leading her to explore its aesthetic potential. Belin’s more recent work has embraced new technology, blurring the lines between illusion and reality whilst experimenting with different processes and techniques.

Belin studied at École Beaux-arts de Versailles from 1983-5, and then at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges where she obtained the French higher national diploma in visual expression in 1988. She has held several solo exhibitions including a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2015. Her work is held in numerous public collections, including the Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was awarded the Prix Pictet in 2015 with her series Still Life, and made an Officer of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 2017.

Using cheap disposable objects arranged by the artist in her studio, the ‘Still Life’ compositions play on ideas of consumerism and mass consumption within the framework of photographic traditions.
Collection
Accession number
E.933-2019

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Record createdOctober 22, 2019
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