Koslov Larsen is pleased to announce the representation of Blandine Soulage. Born in Grenoble, France in 1980, Soulage lives and works in Lyon.
In 2013, Soulage began her artistic career by training in photography at the Gobelins School. Her work explores the architecture of bodies and their relationship to space. Her visual language is characterized by bold color, staging, lighting, styling, and graphic composition. Soulage also integrates screen printing into her practice to create unique visual objects through the pictorial and chromatic reinterpretation of her photos.
Soulage's Déviation series displays bodies in unexpected postures that deviate from the ordinary to the extra-ordinary. Unpredicted trajectories, misdirections, reversals of perspective disorganize reality, drawing their own poetic routes. These images feature anonymous characters whose faces are never visible, their various “body patterns” opening up a world of fictions with open-ended interpretations. Lisa Woodward of Pictura Gallery states: “Blandine Soulage projects her imagination onto every stairwell and ledge, scouting out urban nooks and walls as a theater for play. […] Her language is refreshingly minimal; her sense of color is intuitive and sophisticated, and she uses that color to activate and animate the architecture. She wants her compositions to open ‘a poetic breach in reality.’”
In 2023, the Déviation series won second prize from the jury of the Les Rencontres d'Arles X Fuji competition. From September to December 2023, the series was the subject of a public photographic installation in Lyon. In addition to her fine art work, Soulage carries out photographic commissions in the cultural and institutional sectors, as well as for brands and agencies. Her images are regularly published in French media such as Les Inrocks, Libération, Télérama, Le Monde. Soulage also teaches as part of the European Bachelor of Photography program at Bloo School Lyon.
Koslov Larsen looks forward to exhibiting selections of Soulage's photographic and screen print works in an upcoming show.
