Having taken part in several group exhibitions in the United States, the most recent being Striking Resemblance – The Portrait as Muse: Belin – Sugimoto – Viola in late 2008/early 2009 at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, this is Valérie Belin’s first solo exhibition at an American museum, at the instigation of Phillip Prodger, its Curator of Photography.

The exhibition will showcase 20 large format photographs representing five years of work from 2003 to 2008, illustrating Valérie Belin´s ability to produce works which stand on the border between the real and the artificial world, as in her Mannequins. The presence of some of her most recent work taken from the Lido (2007) and Ballroom Dancers (2008) series, alongside some of her Métisses (2006), will illustrate how her work has evolved of late: the characters in her photographs today seem to emerge from the virtual world, in a dreamlike vision, taking us far beyond the analogical nature of photography.

For further informations about this exhibiition :

http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/22-valerie_belin_made_up

The Musée National d’Art Moderne has decided to "show the feminine side of its collections” for a full year, from 27^th May 2009 to 24^th May 2010. The exhibition will show a chronological, themed selection of more than 500 works by over 200 artists, devoted entirely to female artists from the 20^th century to the present day.

Valérie Belin is exhibited on level 4, room 11A in the “Corps slogan / La Belle et la Bête” section. Her disturbing black and white portrait from the Mannequins (2003) series lies halfway between the living and the inanimate and is featured alongside works by Marina Abramovic and Cindy Sherman, perfectly illustrating the theme of this room where “the portrait, freed from gender conventions and the temptation to copy, becomes an expressive space allowing opposites to meet, creating hybrids of stereotypes and repressed forms.”

For further informations about this exhibition :

http://www.ina.fr/fresques/elles-centrepompidou/Html/PrincipaleAccueil.php