Marie Docher
This work is supported by the Sunnhordland Museum, Norway
30, rue des Haies 75020 Paris, France tel : +33(0)6 07 61 26 18 email : marie @docher.com site internet : docher.com
Exhibition may 15 - june 15 - 2013 at Halsnoy Kloster
The island without a shore The work for this exhibition was created during an invited artist in residence stay at the Halnoy Kloster in June 2012. “The island without a shore” is a series of still images, video, and silver gelatin lumen prints which attempt to immerse the body into the landscape and explore its relationship with time and weather. In french language, the word “le temps” is a homophony which means both “time” and “weather”. This work links these two concepts. The long days of the Summer solstice, its duration of light and the constant change in weather accrues on the body. Over time, its physical effects is palpable. View of the exhibition
VIDEO
Island without a shore 6 mn The narrator shares her unexpected experience with the surrounding landscape as a manifestation of her inner life.
Video
PHOTOGRAPHY
The island 30 images In this series, the “outfield� is in the field, the subject is absent, yet its presence is felt in every picture. The result is an improbable landscape that gradually reveals the invisible. Title of the images (juin = june) 11 juin - 10:28 12 juin - 11:10 13 juin - 10:17 14 juin - 10:41 15 juin - 10:09 16 juin - 11:26 17 juin - 11:05 18 juin - 10:32 19 juin - 10:44 20 juin - 10:11 21 juin - 09:12 22 juin - 10:28 23 juin - 11h12 24 juin - 11:36 25 juin - 10:05
11 juin - 21:50 12 juin - 22:28 13 juin - 22:14 14 juin - 23:08 15 juin - 21:05 16 juin - 22:17 17 juin - 22:18 18 juin - 22:09 19 juin - 22:25 20 juin - 22:00 21 juin - 21:12 22 juin - 22:34 23 juin - 21:36 24 juin - 22:30 25 juin - 21:16
Prints: L100 cm x H145 cm 7 copies on Hahnemuehle Baryta
PHOTOGRAPHY
Facing 4 images The subjects body reveals the passing of weather and time. Her posture expresses her position to the world and her attitude toward confronting life and death.
Prints: L80 cm x H50 cm 7 copies on Hahnemuehle Baryta
VIDEO
I am getting older 9 mn 19 portraits of people saying the words : “I am getting older�. The camera is positioned close to the skin and hair - areas where time and weather have left their traces.
video
PHOTOGRAPHY
Topography 26 images Although the territory is metaphorically explored, it is no less real. The photographs explore the topography of the place and put new benchmarks for a broader vision.
Prints (26 images) : L100 cm x H75 cm 7 copies on Hahnemuehle Baryta
PAPER/ PHOTOGRAPHY
LUMEN PRINTS 20 papers Every morning, I put a sheet of photographic paper outside in the sun upon the stones of the old cloister. At the end of very evening, I photographed the traces left .
Prints: L100 cm x H120 Ă 135 cm 7 copies on Hahnemuehle Baryta Square prints : 100 x 100 7 copies on Hahnemuehle Baryta
Marie DOCHER Mail : marie@docher.com Web : www.docher.com Born in 1963 in France Live in Paris 2013 Halsnoy Kloster, Norway - “The island without a shore” Photographer’s network- Siegen, Germany 2012 Mois Off Paris - Galerie Oberkampf - Corpusx4 Halsnoy Kloster, Norway - Artist in résidence 2011 Les Boutographies - Montpellier, France : « Traversée » Photographer’s network - Siegen, Germany Fstop Magazine - “all about me” issue - « Santiago de Compostella » 2010 Brighton Fringe Festival - UK: «Shaping Silence» - Curator: Roy Exley Bering & James Gallery - Houston, USA: “an Intercultural View on American Values” 2009 Paris Photo : Galerie 127 Galerie 127 - Marrakech, Morocco : “Medin’medina” 2008 Guest lectures City College of San Francisco, USA: The sacred in photography San Francisco Art Institute, USA: Self-portrait in European Photography. Exhibits Don de vie - Paris, France - Curator: Jean DiScullio Gallery Bering & James - Houston TX, USA Reflecting Habitus - Curator: Xavia Karner Festival Photo’08 - Kaunas, Lithuania - Curator: Mindaugas Kavaliauskas
Tracing Love 24/7 – Belgrade, Serbia 2007 Les Elysées de l’Art - Paris, France - “self portrait in a persistant world” Curator: Bernard Dudoignon 2006 4èmes Rencontres Photons Libres au Centre Méridional de l’Architecture et de la Ville deToulouse, France : “Mémoires du Temple” Les Indépendances - Enghien, France - Curator: Dominique Charlet Hellenic Photographic Society’s 8th international festival of artistic photography Education and professional experience 1987 1981 1994-2001
Diplome Sup de Co Clermont (DESCAF). (Master Degree) Baccalaureat A Founder of a communication agency.