About

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28 year old french artist-photographer based in Paris.
Julie De Sousa has been exploring the expression of the body through her dance practice for fourteen years.

“The body has always appeared to me as an essential component of identity. In dance, the body is structuring, it determines our link to the other and to space. This is how it is in life, in general, the body embodies, expresses, guides or deceives. It is not only an envelope that addresses aesthetic sensibility, it is also a mediation, the most natural and intimate to emotions.” 

Self-taught, her first decisive experience in the world of photography was at Normal Magazine (a player in erotic photography) in 2015 - in parallel with a Master of Arts at La Sorbonne.

In the years that followed, Julie De Sousa continued to study the body, both in intimacy and on stage. In 2020, she began to follow and photograph the dance company Du Dedans, directed by Vincent Hodin, which she would eventually join as a dancer-interpreter in 2021. As in all her work, the border between her role as a spectator and her role as an actress remains porous. In the company, she is both behind her camera and on stage at every residency.

“Before "coming to take pictures", I come to have an encounter.”

That same year, she started her first publishing project entitled Nouvelles Amours. She invited herself for several days, weeks, sometimes months... into the intimacy of strangers (couples, polyamorists, libertines...), in order to create the bond of trust necessary for the photographic shoot.
Eager to capture with sincerity the complexity of love relationships and the richness of the erotic imagination, she begins by sharing her own intimacy. Her first series feature close friends, with whom she has a strong relationship, and even her own loves.

But what is the narrative part and what is the autobiographical part ? For the author, it is as much about discovering the other as it is about exploring her own sensitivity.  

“Photography always acts as a mirror and the intimacy that I capture in my subjects - friends or strangers - perhaps says more about the way I look at them and therefore about my own intimacy.”

Exhibitions

- Lusted Men, Galerie le 110, Paris, group exhibition Désirés, from December 8, 2022 to February 4, 2023.

- Village Reille, Group exhibition from December 17 to 19, 2021, Paris.

- Rencontres d'Arles 2021, gallery of the Hôtel de Grille : my friends, the photographers; Group exhibition - curator : Pia Camilla Copper.

- BELLE n.m. Beau n.f. gallery, from June 26 to July 3, 2021, Arles : the door we never opened into the rose garden; Group exhibition for the opening of the gallery / August 5th to September 5th 2021 : VENUS.