leah desmousseaux
Born in 1995, Leah Desmousseaux lives and works in Nantes. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Nantes Métropole with congratulations. She’s Laureate of the Art Students Week 2018, chaired by photographer Patrick Tourneboeuf.
Crossed by the figures of the vestige and the desert, Leah Desmousseaux’s photographic research consists in a visual and experimental approach around the hybridization of analog and digital processes. She is interested in the archaic techniques of this medium which, in the XIXth century, was carried by the pictorialist movement and by romantic aesthetics. She understand the desert landscape as a radical, mineral and wild otherness, conducive to the re-evaluation of the human scale and the languages beetwen people and environment.
Antiquities museums, natural history museums, archaeological and geological sites, illustrated books and internet flow are all places of archives from which she extracts the raw material of her laboratory work. Through both optical and haptic manipulation of the image-matter, she seeks to decontextualize and encrypt the reading of these objects from memory in order to open a contemplative reflection on the making of our representations and our stories.
2022
Sol, Le Lait Art Center & Arthur Batut photograph place, Labruguière
2021
Tadmer, L’atelier Argentique, as part of Waves festival, Nantes
L’Horizon des événements, Collège Claude Debussy, with Exposer InSitu, Angers
2020
Sillages photographiques, Robet Dantec Gallery, Belfort
Espace Mira, in collaboration with Gaël Darras, Nantes
2018
Locus in aliore loco, with Gaël Darras, CAPRA (archeologic center), Allonnes
2023
Concordance des Temps, Robet Dantec Gallery, Belfort
Danse avec la Terre, L’évènement photographique #2, NOP Grand-Est new photograph observatory, Nancy
Traversées, The Bus – mobile cultural space, Ariège
2022
Paint discovery century, Prehistoric center of Pech Merle, Cabrerets
Nouvelles Acquisitions, artothèque RU – Le Repaire Urbain, Angers
La photographie à tous prix, A year of photograph prices at BnF, François-Mittérand library, Paris
Pop-Up Galeries, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis
Handle with care, Robet Dantec Gallery & The Spaceless Gallery, Hôtel d’Aguesseau, Paris
Art Fair Dijon, Robet Dantec Gallery, parc des expositions, Dijon
Berger en Arles, Les Rencontres de la photographie off, Arles
2021
Art Fair Dijon, with Robet Dantec Gallery, Dijon
Paper Positions Basel, avec la Galerie Robet Dantec, Bâle (CH)
Les Solitudes, at Temple du Goût, as part of Wave festival, Nantes
Exhibition of finalists of Prix Jeune création of Saint-Rémy (Aveyron), Moulin des Arts de Saint-Rémy.
Cueillir des étoiles, École des Beaux Arts of Nantes, Nantes
À bas bruit, L’image Satellite, contemporary photograph festival, le 109, Nice
2020
Émergences #2 – des mondes perdus, Robet Dantec Gallery, Belfort
Art Paris Live, Françoise Livinec Gallery, stand E11, www.artparis.com, Paris
Les Photographiques festival, exhibition center Paul Courboulay, Le Mans
1280°, Espace Mira, Nantes
2019
Felicità 19, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Go west, École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes
Au bord du gouffre, École des Filles – Galerie Françoise Livinec, Huelgoat
Prix Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne pour l’Art contemporain, Bastille Design Center, Paris
2023
Finalist of Commande d’estampes Les temps changent…, CNAP & ADRA
Résidence, Ithaque, Chambre noire, Paris (1 semaine)
Résidence, Artiste associée, Le Bus – mobile cultural space, Association Autres Directions, Larbont (1 an)
Résidence, Château de Seix – Patrimoine et création en Couserans (3 semaines)
Nominated at Résidence de création photographique, CIP (Collège International de Photographie) & La Capsule
2022
Exceptional support fund for plastic artists, Nantes Métropole
Creation in progress, Les Ateliers de Médicis, Paris/ Lot (6mois)
2021
Lauréate Bourse & Programme Traversées lead by the CIPAC, la FRAAP and the Réseau Diagonal
Jury Price at Prix Jeune création of Saint-Rémy (Aveyron)
Individual help for creation, DRAC Pays de la Loire
Nominated price Caisse d’Épargne Côte d’Azur
Finalist Price of Tirage Collection Bachelot, CIPGP
Residence, Moulin des Arts, Saint-Rémy, (1 mois)
Residence, Le Bel Ordinaire, contemporary art space Pau Béarn Pyrénées, Billière (1 mois)
2020
Residence de création, Fab’Lab de la Médiathèque du Pays d’Héricourt (70) (2 mois)
Residence by invitation of Collectif Blast, Pépinière artistique Daviers, Angers (1 mois)
Project help in visual arts, Région Pays de la Loire
2019
– 2nd price Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne for Art contemporain, Paris
2018
– 1st price ArtStudentsWeek, Paris
National Center of Plastic Arts (CNAP)
National library of France (BnF)
Les Abattoirs Musée — FRAC Occitanie Toulouse
Stiftung Bartels Fondation, Bâle
Artothèques of Angers
département arthoteque of Tarn
Artotheque of l’École des Beaux-Arts of Nantes
Artotheque of Bel Ordinaire — contemporary art space, Pau Béarn Pyrénées
Artotheque of the library of Pays d’Héricourt
Photographic space collection Arthur Batut, Labruguière
Collection of Festival de l’image, Le Mans
