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I’ve been selected to exhibit at the VIF – Festival Images de Vincennes, dedicated to new photographic approaches.
On this occasion, I’ll be presenting my work in a solo show organized in collaboration with Galerie Hegoa, in the beautiful Espace Sorano.
Exhibition from May 23 to June 16, 2025 – Espace Sorano, Vincennes
You are warmly invited to the opening on Thursday May 23rd.
I’ll be on site on May 23, 24 and 25, and I’d be delighted to talk to you about my work, my artistic approach and this exhibition series.
Come and discover my world and that of the other artists at the festival!
The atelier opens its doors from May 15 to 18, 2025, on the occasion of the Belleville workshop open ateliers. Immerse yourself in the intimacy of my studio and discover the different stages of my creative process.
I invite you to discover what goes on behind the scenes: the tools I use, the materials I transform, the inspirations that fuel my approach. I welcome you at 140 rue de Belleville, Paris, from 2pm to 8pm.
A look back at the exhibition of the Kintsugi, âmes d’enfants series at the Parlement de Bretagne: the series was exhibited at the Parlement de Bretagne in December 2024 on the occasion of the ‘l’enfant, témoin et victime’ conference.
Fine art photography : artist’s statement
Laetitia Lesaffre works on repair, memory and the trces of that memory. As a visual artist, she works with traditional Asian lacquer, a material that serves as a support for reflection, a founding principle of her photographs. She captures these traces by photographing her models reflected in her lacquer. These lacquered panels serve as mirrors, they erase the line and show the sketch.
In her work, the notion of time is important. Time is sometimes suspended, like an image conjured up from a dream, the place and time of which cannot be recalled. The long time it takes to work with lacquer encourages meditation, while the spontaneity of the shot encourages immediate action. She seeks to capture that moment when the subject escapes its image, and thus reveals another interpretation of the body, of the portrait, of the very essence of the subject.
Over time, her photographic work has taken on a sociological dimension. Her portrait series “DE-SOL-ES, childhood in exile”, created during a residency at France Terre d’Asile, her series “Kintsugi, women reflection” and her new project “Kintsugi, children’s souls” anchor her work in contemporary reality.
She takes part in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad, notably in Milan (MIA), Brussels (AAF), Cologne (List), Paris (Fotofever, Galerie Hegoa), Lille (Galerie Melting Art) and New York (Sturgis Art Gallery). Her work can be found in private and public collections. She also took part in a group show at the Maison de la Photographie in Lille, and has received awards (Objectif FEMMES 2018 winner, Conseil Général de l’Essonne prize, Beaune special jury prize).
As an insatiable researcher, she continues to experiment traditional lacquer, the art of Kintsugi, old-fashioned prints and mordanting, and through reflections, dissolves the boundary that separates painting from photography.