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Simone Simon

A photographer by trade, Simone Simon has been developing an artistic practice combining photography, video, sound recordings and written testimonials since 2000. Each of his projects is built in a pragmatic way, to render a raw, often poetic reality. Anchored in a social approach, she seeks in the subjects she captures a living testimony, where absence and time weigh sometimes as a threat, sometimes as a hope.

Thus, time seems to have stopped when she photographs industrial districts and disused infrastructures in several European cities, giving light the leading role (Souriez, on se détruit, Ainsi va la lumière). With Les portes du St Pierre (published by Le Passager Clandestin), she meets women in a suburb of Nice as their insalubrious building, already half-abandoned, is about to be destroyed.
Invoking the buried memories of childhood, the cradle of the first emotions, she gathers audio testimonies, bordering on the dreamy (Do not watch the fox go by). In Nostalgie du présent, a nod to the world of Paul Auster, she contrasts children's and adults' faces: "Everything is already inscribed in a child's face.*she observes, and the double portraits she proposes reveal the astonishing resemblance of a face that time cannot alter.

Simone Simon often relies on the participation of anonymous people (Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers...), and whatever the issue, the images, stories and testimonies speak a common language. The artist highlights mental images, convictions, regrets or dreams, taking the time to listen, with the strong will of not staging anything, but simply seizing a subjective reality in which everyone can find a little of himself and his relationship to others. This was also her approach when she directed the film Boxing-club with Eric Antolinos, shot in a boxing club in the suburbs of Nice. There, she leaves the word free and lingers on the sporting gestures and on the attitudes which make the link between these inhabitants of all the generations and confused communities.
In her current work of photographs and testimonies, CORPS/VOIX territoire de l'intime, she brings together some thirty testimonies of women in their often troubled relationship with their bodies. Posing naked in an intimate setting, these anonymous women assert their desire for freedom: they rise up against cultural diktats and aesthetic codes, often alienating.

Without ever lapsing into pathos, nor claiming any kind of militancy, she nevertheless evokes how people's lives are affected by political decisions of all kinds. Benevolence and slowness make this poetry so particular, where time seems suspended.

Christine Parasote

* Paul Auster in L'invention de la solitude, ed. Actes Sud, 1993

Biography

Main exhibitions at the gallery :

SO GOES THE LIGHT
to the rhythm of the landscape
Body/Voice

Selection of works

Carrefour Charleroi, 2011

So goes the light,

Wimereux, Nord Pas de Calais

The Baltic Sea Klaipéda, Lithuania, 2014.

Mediterranean sea water in plastic bags Sixteen stainless steel gabions Light-emitting diode bulb
60 x 60 x 60 cm and 40 x 40 x 40 cm
Personal exhibitions

2023 Histoire d'eau, Vernissage March 16, 2023, Galerie de l'école des beaux-arts de Versailles, 11 rue St Simon 78000 Versailles, France

2019 CORPS / VOIX Territoires de l'intime, Curratrice Chiara Palermo, Vernissage Friday September 27, 2019 from 6pm, With Presentation and signing of the book NU, Simone Simon, preface by David Le Breton, text by Chiara Palermo, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice

2017 Ne regardez pas le renard passer, Sound installation, With Gilles Miquelis, Vivre à en crever, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice, As part of the exhibition, Souvenir, réalité ou fiction?, debate led by Chiara Palermo (curator, doctor of philosophy) and Jean-Pierre Joly (psychiatrist, psychoanalyst), www.eva-vautier.com

2015 Paroles, 7-minute slide show, In collaboration with the women and children residents of the CHRS, Les Yuccas, yuccas.chrs@association-alc.org

2014 Ainsi va la lumière, Guest artist: Joseph Dadoune, www.eva-vautier.com

2011 Souriez, on se détruit, Guest artist: Nicolas Buissart, Villa Cameline, 43 avenue Montplaisir - 06100 Nice, www.villacameline.fr

2009 Les portes du St Pierre, Galerie d'art contemporain Christian Depardieu, www.galerie-depardieu.com

2007 Boxing club, Documentary made in a Nice suburb, directed by Simone Simon and Eric Antolinos, Awarded at Un festival, c'est trop court, Nice April 2008, Archived at the media library of the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, www.histoire-immigration.fr

2006 Nostalgie du présent, Exhibition of photographs from the book, FNAC, Monaco

2006 Nostalgia for the present, LA STATION Nice, www.lastation.org

2002 Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers...,"LE DOJO" Nice, www.le-dojo.org

Group exhibitions

2022 L'ami-e modèle, Curator Mathieu Mercier, Mucem, Marseille, www.mucem.org

2021 Projet Nomade, Based on a project by Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac, Group show, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice, www.eva-vautier.com, May 21 to June 19 Projet Nomade at Metaxu, espace d'artistes, Toulon, www.metaxu.fr

2020 1 mètre de distance, Group show, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice, www.eva-vautier.com

2019 Cabinet pique-nique, femmes artistes, Voyage immobile video installation, Curator Jean Dupuy, Maison abandonnée (Villa Cameline), Nice, www.villacameline.fr

2016 Ne regardez pas le renard passer, Sound installation, Supervues, petite surface de l'art contemporain, Hôtel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine, www.burrhus.com

2016 Tribu, Group exhibition, www.eva-vautier.com

2015 Il était une fois..., Sound piece, Hôtel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine, www.burrhus.com

2015 One light year away, Group exhibition, www.eva-vautier.com

2014 Mises en scène, Château-musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, umamfrance.blogspot.fr

2013 Se dérober..., Group exhibition, Musée de la Photographie André Villers, Mougins, www.mougins.fr

2012/2013 L'art à l'abattoir, Video directed by Simone Simon and Eric Antolinos, Archived at the MAMAC media library, Nice

2011 J'aime les femmes et je le prouve, Group show, curated by Ben, www.ben-vautier.com

2009 Les portes du St Pierre, Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, Hôtel de Chartrouse

Publications

Biography

CV
  • "Sans titre", 2012

    Sans titre – Simone Simon

    60.00 €
  • Simone Simon, CAGNES SUR MER

    3,600.00 €
  • Simone Simon, Don’t watch the fox go by

    500.00 €
  • Simone Simon, ICELAND 2

    3,600.00 €
  • Simon Simone "La vie est un songe (Pedro Calderon de la Barca)",  2020

    Simone Simon, Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca)

    700.00 €
  • Simone Simon, NU – Book

    25.00 €
  • Simone Simon, VENCE

    3,600.00 €

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    Simone Simon

     

    Photographer by profession, Simone Simon has been developing an artistic practice for fifteen years, mixing shots, videos, sound recordings and written testimonies. Each of his projects is built in a pragmatic way, to render a raw, often poetic reality. Anchored in a social approach, she seeks in the subjects she captures a living testimony, where absence and time weigh sometimes as a threat, sometimes as a hope.

     

    Thus, time seems to have stopped when she photographs industrial districts and disused infrastructures in several European cities, giving light the leading role (Souriez, on se détruit, Ainsi va la lumière). With Les portes du St Pierre (published by Le Passager Clandestin), she meets women in a suburb of Nice as their insalubrious building, already half-abandoned, is about to be destroyed.

     

    Invoking the buried memories of childhood, the cradle of the first emotions, she gathers audio testimonies, bordering on the dreamy (Do not watch the fox go by). With Nostalgia of the Present, a nod to the world of Paul Auster, she confronts the faces of children and adults: “Everything is already inscribed in a child’s face, “* she notes, and the double portraits she proposes bring out in a troubling way the astonishing resemblance of a face that time cannot alter.

     

    Often, Simone Simon relies on the participation of anonymous people (On the passage of a few people through…) and whatever the problem posed, the images, stories and testimonies speak a common language to all. The artist highlights mental images, convictions, regrets or dreams, taking the time to listen, with the strong will of not staging anything, but simply seizing a subjective reality in which everyone can find a little of himself and his relationship to others. This was also her approach when she directed the film Boxing-club with Eric Antolinos, shot in a boxing club in the suburbs of Nice. There, she leaves the word free and lingers on the sporting gestures and on the attitudes which make the link between these inhabitants of all the generations and confused communities.

     

    In her current work of photographs and testimonies, Le vent se lève, she brings together some thirty testimonies of women in the often troubled relationship they have with their bodies. Posing naked in an intimate setting, these anonymous women assert their desire for freedom: they rise up against cultural diktats and aesthetic codes, often alienating.

     

    Without ever lapsing into pathos, nor claiming any kind of militancy, she nevertheless evokes how people’s lives are affected by political decisions of all kinds. Benevolence and slowness make this poetry so particular, where time seems suspended.

     

    * Paul Auster in, The Invention of Solitude, ed. Actes Sud, 1993

     

     

    Simone Simon

    Lives in Nice

     

     

     

    PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

     

    2019

    BODY / VOICE Territories of the intimate
    Curator Chiara Palermo
    Opening Friday, September 27, 2019 from 6:00 pm
    With presentation and signing of the book NU, Simone Simon, preface by David Le Breton, text by Chiara Palermo
    Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice

     

    2016

    Don’t watch the fox go by
    Sound installation
    Supervues, small surface of contemporary art
    35 rooms, 35 artists
    Hotel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine

     

    2015

    Words
    7 minute slide show
    In collaboration with the women and children residents of the CHRS, Les Yuccas

     

    2014

    Thus Goes the Light

    Guest artist : Joseph Dadoune

    Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice

     

    2011

    Smile, We’re Destroying Ourselves, Abandoned House

    The Villa Caméline, Nice

     

    2009

    Les Portes Du Saint Pierre

    Hôtel de Chartrouse, Rencontres de la Photoraphie, Arles

    Les Portes Du Saint Pierre

    Depardieu Gallery, Nice

     

    2006

    Nostalgia Of The Present, FNAC

    Monaco Nostalgia of the Present

    The Station, Nice

     

    2002

    On The Passage Of Some People Through

    DOJO, Nice

     

     

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS

     

    2020

    1 meter distance
    Group exhibition with Benoît Barbagli and Aimée Fleury, Tom Barbagli, Arnaud Biais, Evan Bourgeau, Pauline Brun, Anna Byskov, Marc Chevalier, Joseph Dadoune, Nicolas Daubanes, Kristof Everart, Anne Favret and Patrick Manez, Forstner Gregory, Camille Franch-Guerra, Jacqueline Gainon, Marie Genin, Anne Gérard, Alexandra Guillot Alice Guittard, Laurie Jacquetty, Sandra Lecoq, Gilles Miquelis, Frédérique Nalbandian, Gérald Panighi, François Paris, Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac, Caroline Rivalan, Omar Rodriguez Sanmartin, Justin Sanchez, Simone Simon, Cedric Teisseire, Florent Testa, Ben Vautier, Agnès Vitani, Agathe Wiesner, Anne-Laure Wuillai and Junko Yamasaki.
    Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice

     

    2019

    Picnic cabinet, women artists
    Video installation Voyage immobile
    With Olga Adorno, Brigitte Cardinal, Catherine Cattaneo, Caroline Challan-Belval, Elena Ferrer, Jacqueline Gainon, Alexandra Guillot, yayoi Gunji, Yoko Gunji, Corinna Kiefer, Jeanne Le Guff, Louise Luc Kheloui, Stéphanie Marin, Evelyne Noviant, Jackie Monnier Matisse, Lola Parrot, Marinella Senatore, Franka Séverin, Simone Simon, Anna Tomaszewski Abandoned House (Villa Cameline), Nice

     

    2017

    Don’t watch the fox go by
    Sound installation
    With Gilles Miquelis, Living to death
    Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice In the context of the exhibition, Remembrance, reality or fiction, debate led by Chiara Palermo (curator, doctor of philosophy) and Jean-Pierre Joly (psychiatrist, psychoanalyst)

     

    2016

    Tribe
    With Mathieu Alary, Pauline Brun, Joseph Dadoune, Sandra D. Lecoq, Kristof Everart, Gregory Forstner, Jacqueline Gainon, Anita Gauran, Alice Guittard, Philippe Jusforgues, Virginie Le Touze, Natacha Lesueur, Cécile Mainardi, Gilles Miquelis, Frédérique Nalbandian, Gérald Panighi, François Paris, Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac, Simone Simon, Ben Vautier, Agnès Vitani

     

    2015

    Once upon a time… An exhibition of Jean Dupuy and his friends : Catherine Cattaneo & Gilbert Caty, Jean Dupuy, Philippe Boulard & Jean-Baptiste Gurly, Jean-Luc Parant, Thierry Lagalla, Simone Simon…Hôtel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine

    A Year of Light, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice

     

    2014

    Mise En Scène, UMAM, Château de Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer 2013

    Se Dérober, André Villers Museum of Photography, Mougins

     

    2012-2013

    Art At The Slaughterhouse, le 109, Nice

     

    2011

    I love women and I prove it

    Space to discuss, BEN, Nice

     

     

    PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

     

    2014

    La Manga Del Mar (MURCIA), B/W photograph (1/5 digital prints), series Ainsi Va La Lumière, private collection

    Ambleteuse and Wimereux 2 photographs (EA), series Ainsi Va La Lumière, private collection

     

    2013

    Headless Nude, B/W photograph (1/5 digital prints), Musée de la Photographie, Mougins

     

    2012-2013

    L’Art À L’Abattoir, video co/directed with Eric Antolinos Archived at the MAMAC media library, Nice

    Cabines de Bains BERG, photography (1/5 digital prints), private collection 2012 Untitled, photography (1/5 digital prints), edition Les Portes Du Saint Pierre

     

    2011

    One, photograph (1/7 digital prints), series Nieuwpoort, private collection

    One, photography (2/7 digital prints), Nieuwpoort series, private collection Blue 2, photography (1/7 digital prints), Nieuwpoort series, private collection Charleroi Tuyaux, photography (1/7 digital prints), private collection

     

    2010

    Charleroi Box, digigraphy (1/5 digital prints), private collection
    Charleroi Metro 1, digigraphy (1/5 digital prints), private collection
    Wimereux, photography (1 and 2/5 digital prints), Voyage En Diagonale series 2002003, private collection

     

    2009

    Les portes Du Saint Pierre, Paroles De Femmes Dans Leur Cité, book of photographs published by Le Passager Clandestin

    Archived at the National Museum of Immigration History, Paris

     

    2008

    Boxing Club, Video-documentary archived at the National Museum of Immigration History, Paris

     

     

    PUBLICATIONS

     

    2009

    Les Portes Du Saint Pierre, Éditions Le Passage Clandestin, Paris 2006 Nostalgie Du Présent, Éditions e-dite, Paris

     

     

    FILMOGRAPHY

     

    2014

    Voie Ferrée, Alicante, Exhibition Ainsi Va La Lumière, Gallery Eva vautier, Nice Blockhaus, Wissant, Exhibition Ainsi Va La Lumière, Gallery Eva vautier, Nice

     

    2014

    Castle in Spain, Alicante, Exhibition Mise En Scène, Grimaldi Castle, Cagnes sur Mer

     

    2008

    Boxing Club, Cannes Festival, Short Film Corner,

     

    2007

    Boxing Club, Un Festival C’est Trop Court, Cinéma Rialto, Nice

     

    2014

    Ainsi Va La Lumière, Eva Vautier Gallery, FR3 broadcast, Nice

    2009

    Les Portes Du Saint Pierre, Escale Festival Program, International Meetings of the

    Photography in Arles, Radio France Inter (July 2009)
    Les Portes Du Saint Pierre, Article in Le Monde 2 (September 2009)
    La Parole aux Sans-Voix, article in the newspaper El Watan (December 2009)

     

    2002

    Sur Le Passage De Quelques Personnes À Travers, Personal exhibition, DOJO, Nice

    FR3 program
    Article Nice Matin (January 2002)

     

     

    AID, AWARDS

     

    2009

    Les Portes Du Saint Pierre,
    Financial assistance from the General Council

    Exhibition assistance, City of Nice

     

    2008

    Boxing Club, Video-Documentary

     

     

     

    CURSUS

     

    1975-1978

    Photo Assistant, Paul Genest, Plateau Sud, Rungis 1978-2002 Photographer

     

    2002-2015

    Photographer and videographer

     

     

    Cité de Murcia, zone résidentielle Nueva Condomina, 2013, 30 x 45 cm
    LANDSCAPE 006
    Grau du roi
    Simone Simon n° 5251 [Ambleteuse Nord-Pas-de-Calais ] 2006 Tirage sur papier fine art by hahnemhle.Tirage 25 130 X 103 cm
    Simone Simon, Ne regardez pas le renard passer, 2016
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    • "Sans titre", 2012

      Sans titre – Simone Simon

      60.00 €
    • Simone Simon, CAGNES SUR MER

      3,600.00 €
    • Simone Simon, Don’t watch the fox go by

      500.00 €
    • Simone Simon, ICELAND 2

      3,600.00 €
    • Simon Simone "La vie est un songe (Pedro Calderon de la Barca)",  2020

      Simone Simon, Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca)

      700.00 €
    • Simone Simon, NU – Book

      25.00 €
    • Simone Simon, VENCE

      3,600.00 €

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