Céline Villegas is exhibited at the Festival de Photographie(s) MAP Toulouse. This work is the result of the “grande commande” from the Ministère de la Culture and the BnF.
Céline Villegas is a self-taught Franco-Chilean photographer born in France in 1981.
In her analog work mixing abstraction and reality, the photographer takes a unique look at reality and works in particular on portraits of territories and documentary projects.
In these maritime and aquatic environments, she cuts out scenes imbued with poetry, fragments of relaxed bodies, questioning the world around her and the sociology of places or practices.
She collaborates with the national and international press (Monde Magazine, l’Equipe mag, Zadig, Die Welt, Le Temps, Le Monde…). She is the winner of the Grand National Order for photographers from the Ministry of Culture and the BNF in 2022 and received the contemporary documentary photography grant from the CNAP in 2023. She is starting a project on the ecological challenges of Easter Island, alongside other personal projects on her origins in Valparaiso or on the Parisian Bains douches.
A fresco of France and the period of uncertainty through the tourist prism, its actors and its emblematic places. Céline Villegas explores classic heritage tourism, mass tourism but also new forms of tourism to understand the phenomenon in all its nuances.
This crossing of tourist France freezes in time a lightness hidden from the annoyances of the time without ignoring them. The Tourist who photographs, observes, marvels in slowness, offers us a tender and distanced look at a country nevertheless in crisis. The photographer documented the gradual return of foreign tourists to France and the resumption of leisure activities of which we were deprived during the Covid period. Through this film work, Céline Villegas offers an offbeat look, sometimes with a touch of humor, on the sociology of tourist places in France.
Festival de Photographie(s) MAP Toulouse
from September 12 to 29, 2024
https://map-photo.fr/
