artist/ Loiseur
France
Biography
Born in Cherbourg in 1965, Yveline Loiseur lives and works in Lyon.
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles and the Université Pa-
ris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Yveline Loiseur has developed a protei
form, including installations in public spaces, artist’s books and children’s albums. She
the making of images, and sees photography as a reflection of human fragility.
human fragility.
In a dialogue with literature, she blends documentary photography and staging
exploring notions of time, passage and memory, absence and disappearance, tracing a geography of time.
a sinuous geography between collective history, individual experience and childhood
childhood memories.
She employs collaborative practices and is particularly interested in the representa- tion of the human figure within the visual arts.
of the human figure in spaces of collective life: family, school, urban public space
public urban space, hospitals, social housing, hospitals and work-assistance centers.
His work has been exhibited in France (Musée d’Art contemporain de Lyon, Centre Photogra- phique d’Île de France, etc.).
phique d’Île de France, Le Bleu du Ciel – Centre de photographie contemporaine à Lyon,
Center Photographique – Marseille, Frac Normandie, Lux – Scène nationale de Valence) and
abroad (Mois Européen de la Photographie in Luxembourg and Bratislava, Institut Français
Français de Dresde, Mois de la Photo à Montréal). His work can be found in public (Frac, artothèques)
collections (Frac, artothèques) and private collections, and is the subject of numerous publications.
In 2019, in collaboration with Olivier Belon, she published Florence et
Henri, a photography book for children, and in 2020 Lointain Intérieur, with a text by
by Michel Poivert.
She regularly takes part in artist residencies (Laureate of the French Institute’s Hors les
Murs program of the Institut Français in 2010 in Trieste, Italy; artist residency with the Centre
Photographique de Marseille 2017-2020) or grants (Aide à la création de la DRAC
Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes in 2009) or public commissions (1% for the Ly-
cée Lumière in Lyon in 2015). In 2022, she won the CNAP’s Soutien à la photographie do- cumentaire contemporaine.
cumentaire contemporaine du CNAP and her works joined the CNAP collections in
2023. She is represented by Galerie Françoise Besson.
On-line resources
http://www.dda-ra.org/fr/oeuvres/LOISEUR_Yveline
https://www.yvelineloiseur.com
https://www.francoisebesson.com/representation/yvelineloiseur
