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Simone Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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 d\u00e9truit, Ainsi va la lumi\u00e8re). 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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In her current work of photographs and testimonies, Le vent se l\u00e8ve, 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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* Paul Auster in, The Invention of Solitude<\/em>, ed. Actes Sud, 1993<\/p>\n

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Simone Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lives in Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n

CORPS \/ VOIX Territoires de l’intime<\/em>
\nCurator Chiara Palermo
\nVernissage Friday, September 27, 2019 from 6pm
\nWith Presentation and signing of the book NU, Simone Simon, preface by David Le Breton, text by Chiara Palermo
\nGalerie Eva Vautier, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2016 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ne regardez pas le renard passer<\/em>
\nSound installation
\nSupervues, petite surface de l’art contemporain
\n35 rooms, 35 artists
\nH\u00f4tel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Paroles<\/em>
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\nIn collaboration with the women and children residents of the CHRS, Les Yuccas<\/p>\n

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2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thus Goes the Light<\/em><\/p>\n

Guest artist : Joseph Dadoune<\/p>\n

Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice<\/p>\n

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2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Souriez, On Se D\u00e9truit, Maison Abandonn\u00e9e<\/em><\/p>\n

La Villa Cam\u00e9line, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Les Portes Du Saint Pierre<\/em><\/p>\n

H\u00f4tel de Chartrouse, Rencontres de la Photoraphie, Arles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Les Portes Du Saint Pierre<\/em><\/p>\n

Galerie Depardieu, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2006<\/strong><\/p>\n

NostalgieDu Pr\u00e9sent, <\/em>FNAC<\/p>\n

Monaco Nostalgie Du Pr\u00e9sent<\/p>\n

La Station, Nice<\/p>\n

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2002<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sur Le Passage De Quelques Personnes \u00c0 Travers<\/em><\/p>\n

DOJO, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2020 <\/strong><\/p>\n

1 m\u00e8tre de distance<\/em>
\nGroup show with Beno\u00eet Barbagli and Aim\u00e9e 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 G\u00e9rard, Alexandra Guillot, Alice Guittard, Laurie Jacquetty, Sandra Lecoq, Gilles Miquelis, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Nalbandian, G\u00e9rald Panighi, Fran\u00e7ois Paris, Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac, Caroline Rivalan, Omar Rodriguez Sanmartin, Justin Sanchez, Simone Simon, Cedric Teisseire, Florent Testa, Ben Vautier, Agn\u00e8s Vitani, Agathe Wiesner, Anne-Laure Wuillai and Junko Yamasaki.
\nGalerie Eva Vautier, Nice<\/p>\n

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Cabinet pique-nique, femmes artistes<\/em>
\nVideo installation Voyage immobile
\nWith 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, St\u00e9phanie Marin, Evelyne Noviant, Jackie Monnier Matisse, Lola Parrot, Marinella Senatore, Franka S\u00e9verin, Simone Simon, Anna Tomaszewski Abandoned house (Villa Cameline), Nice<\/p>\n

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2017 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ne regardez pas le renard passer<\/em>
\nSound installation
\nWith Gilles Miquelis, Vivre \u00e0 en crever
\nGalerie Eva Vautier, Nice As part of the exhibition, Souvenir, r\u00e9alit\u00e9 ou fiction?<\/em> a discussion led by Chiara Palermo (curator, doctor of philosophy) and Jean-Pierre Joly (psychiatrist, psychoanalyst).<\/p>\n

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2016 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tribu<\/em>
\nWith 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, C\u00e9cile Mainardi, Gilles Miquelis, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Nalbandian, G\u00e9rald Panighi, Fran\u00e7ois Paris, Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac, Simone Simon, Ben Vautier, Agn\u00e8s Vitani<\/p>\n

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2015 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Once upon a time… <\/em>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…H\u00f4tel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine<\/p>\n

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A Year of Light, <\/em>Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mise En Sc\u00e8ne<\/em>, UMAM, Ch\u00e2teau de Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer 2013<\/p>\n

Se D\u00e9rober<\/em>, Andr\u00e9 Villers Museum of Photography, Mougins<\/p>\n

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Art At The Slaughterhouse<\/em>, le 109, Nice<\/p>\n

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2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

J’aime les femmes et je le prouve<\/em><\/p>\n

Espace \u00c0 D\u00e9battre, BEN, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

La Manga Del Mar (MURCIA), b\/w photography (1\/5 digital prints), Ainsi Va La Lumi\u00e8re<\/em> series, private collection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ambleteuse and Wimereux 2 photographs (EA), series Ainsi Va La Lumi\u00e8re<\/em>, private collection<\/p>\n

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Nu Sans T\u00eate<\/em>, B\/W photography (1\/5 digital prints), Mus\u00e9e de la Photographie, Mougins<\/p>\n

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L’Art \u00c0 L’Abattoir, video co-directed with Eric Antolinos Archived at the MAMAC media library, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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

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2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

One, photograph (1\/7 digital prints), Nieuwpoort series, private collection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charleroi Box, digigraphie (1\/5 digital prints), private collection
\nCharleroi Metro 1, digigraphie (1\/5 digital prints), private collection
\nWimereux, photography (1 and 2\/5 digital prints), Voyage En Diagonale series 2002003, private collection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Les portes Du Saint Pierre<\/em>, Paroles De Femmes Dans Leur Cit\u00e9, book of photographs published by Le Passager Clandestin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Archived at the Mus\u00e9e National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris<\/p>\n

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Boxing Club<\/em>, Video-documentary archived at the Mus\u00e9e National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Les Portes Du Saint Pierre<\/em>, \u00c9ditions Le Passage Clandestin, Paris 2006 Nostalgie Du Pr\u00e9sent, \u00c9ditions e-dite, Paris<\/p>\n

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FILMOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voie Ferr\u00e9e, Alicante, Exhibition Ainsi Va La Lumi\u00e8re, Galerie Eva vautier, Nice Blockhaus, Wissant, Exhibition Ainsi Va La Lumi\u00e8re, Galerie Eva vautier, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ch\u00e2teau En Espagne, Alicante, Mise En Sc\u00e8ne Exhibition, Ch\u00e2teau Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boxing Club<\/em>, Festival Cannes, Short Film Corner,<\/p>\n

2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boxing Club<\/em>, Un Festival C’est Trop Court, Cin\u00e9ma Rialto, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ainsi Va La Lumi\u00e8re<\/em>, Galerie Eva Vautier, \u00c9mission FR3, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Les Portes Du Saint Pierre<\/em>, \u00c9mission Escale Festival, Rencontres Internationales de la<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Photography in Arles, Radio France Inter (July 2009)
\nLes Portes Du Saint Pierre<\/em>, article in Le Monde 2 (September 2009)
\nLa Parole aux Sans-Voix<\/em>, article in El Watan (December 2009)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2002<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sur Le Passage De Quelques Personnes \u00c0 Travers, solo exhibition, DOJO, Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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AID, AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Les Portes Du Saint Pierre,
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Boxing Club, Videodocumentary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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CURSUS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1975-1978<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo Assistant, Paul Genest, Plateau Sud, Rungis 1978-2002 Photographer<\/p>\n

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2002-2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photographer and videographer<\/p>\n

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