Astrid Staes
Astrid Staes is a young emerging photographer based in Paris. Trained as an actress, she has developed a passion for staging, scenography, architecture, and the photography of empty spaces in recent years. She has made the Japanese phenomenon of kodokushi her subject of study. Photography invites us to consider the idea that light possesses a memory. The photographs Astrid Staes presents are an invitation to solitude and absence. In this soft light floats a bygone time, an amalgam of sensations and emotions, the skin of the soul delicately suspended by the photographer. The photographs from Echos des Ruines bear witness to a devastated, silent, and hostile nature. Yet she imbues them with a certain poetry, reminiscent of a walk through the desert. The prints were presented by Françoise Paviot and Domitille d’Orgeval during a public roundtable. The master printer Diamantino created the prints. Portrait © Laurent Gatton
Works
Non-lieu I
Klein blue night
The folding screen
The Evaporated
Biography
Astrid Staes is a young emerging photographer based in Paris. Trained as an actress, she has developed a passion for staging, scenography, architecture, and the photography of empty spaces in recent years. She has made the Japanese phenomenon of kodokushi her subject of study.
Astrid Staes is a young emerging photographer based in Paris. Trained as an actress, she has developed a passion for staging, scenography, architecture, and the photography of empty spaces in recent years. She has made the Japanese phenomenon of kodokushi her subject of study.
Photography invites us to consider the idea that light possesses a memory. The photographs Astrid Staes presents are an invitation to solitude and absence. In this soft light floats a bygone time, an amalgam of sensations and emotions, the skin of the soul delicately suspended by the photographer.
The photographs from Echos des Ruines bear witness to a devastated, silent, and hostile nature. Yet she imbues them with a certain poetry, reminiscent of a walk through the desert. The prints were presented by Françoise Paviot and Domitille d’Orgeval during a public roundtable. The master printer Diamantino created the prints.
Portrait © Laurent Gatton
Exhibitions
Videos
Vidéo
Invisible Presences
Career
Exhibitions/Screenings
2024
Invisible Presence, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Les Meilleures Intentions (short film), Festival des Égluantes
L’écho des Ruines, exhibition in dialogue with Dieter Appelt, La Galerie des Minimes, France
Exhibitions/Screenings
2024
Invisible Presence, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Les Meilleures Intentions (short film), Festival des Égluantes
L’écho des Ruines, exhibition in dialogue with Dieter Appelt, La Galerie des Minimes, France
2023
L’oeuvre Patiente, created at Palais de Tokyo with the Moleskine Foundation, exhibited at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Residency at Ithaque, a shared darkroom and exhibition space developed by Alexandre Arminjon
2022
Le Tailleur de Pierre (short film), Filmothèque du Quartier Latin
2021
Autoportraits, part of the international exhibition Im-Possibility, curated by Elena Korzhevich, Carreau du Temple.