Anne-Lise Broyer

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Born in 1975. She lives and works in Paris.

Graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and the l’Atelier National de Recherche Typographique.

Figures inhabiting spaces. Silhouettes, bodies, faces linger in corridors. The images are notes in a notebook, a diary; houses, rooms, hotels are a metaphor for time. They are spaces to be crossed rather than places one inhabits.

There is something that escapes, departs. It is not the being – which remains there, attached to nothing. It is the eye. The eye escapes, it is the eye that goes outside, encountering the landscape, the mountains, the horizon. And if the subject remains in the interior, like a story imprisoned within a book, his eye focuses on objects and penetrates them. The object retains the memory of a lost world, it condenses a reality that had dissolved or taken shelter within it. Outside, the sky clouds over. Nature preserves a memory that no longer has anything to do with what is human.

(Source : Pascal Gibourg)

“My series all have in common a narrative framework, given by a text or novel I have read. I do not tend to illustrate, but it’s as a reader that I confront the world, and the experience of photography often merges with the exceptional experience of reading. I think that I may honestly say that what initiated and still launches the creative act for me, is the experience of reading. Finally, isn’t it each image I produce the transcription of a more or less old disturbance forged by my readings? Places which I photography haven’t been read before being actually seen. As if, while taking pictures, I was moving forward inside my vision like proceeding in the reading of a book, in a kind of acuity similar to a hypnotic state, as if I was diving, submerged by the world.”

(Source : Anne-Lise Broyer)

With her series “Carnet d’A”, Anne-Lise Broyer is inspired by her reading, by stories told which she takes as the basis for collections of associated images. These new constellations tell new stories in their turn. Here, the series serves as a device contributing to the renewal of the narrative nature of the whole.