Sproxton Award for Photography - 2012 winner
Nathalie Joffre was born in France in 1981. She studied a BA Art History in La Sorbonne (Paris) and an MFA in the University Jules Verne (Amiens, France). She completed MA Photography in 2012 and was winner of the Sproxton Award for Photography 2012.
The 2012 judges: Isabella Brancolini (Brancolini Grimaldi), Minna Pöllänen (MA Photography graduate 2011)
Artist statement
The video and sound installation He told me that his garden…by Nathalie Joffre is the result of the artist’s subjective exploration of the photographic archives of Bethlem Royal Hospital and more specifically of a collection of patients’ pictures, taken by portrait photographer Henry Hering between 1857 and 1859.
Whilst studying Bethlem’s archives, Nathalie became more and more interested not only in the photographic documents themselves, but also in the relationship she was building with them; with the place where they are located and the people on the pictures.
Nathalie’s intention has been to consider these archives not as a fixed accumulation of dead material but as a living and travelling body, that one can access and appropriate physically and mentally.
View more work by Nathalie at nathaliejoffre.com
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Gallery
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He told me that his garden (2012) Video triptych, projection with audio (9 min 15s, looped) by Nathalie Joffre.
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He told me that his garden (2012) Video triptych, projection with audio (9 min 15s, looped) Video still. Courtesy of Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum.
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He told me that his garden (2012) Video triptych, projection with audio (9 min 15s, looped) Video still.
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He told me that his garden (2012) Video triptych, projection with audio (9 min 15s, looped) Video still. Courtesy of Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum.
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He told me that his garden (2012) Video triptych, projection with audio (9 min 15s, looped) Installation view.
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He told me that his garden (2012) Video triptych, projection with audio (9 min 15s, looped) by Nathalie Joffre