Billes de verre (2018) Photography by Edwige Lesiourd

Edwige Lesiourd, a versatile photographer and artist, has explored various professional horizons throughout her life. Among these experiences, teaching philosophy in high schools, education in a prison environment and stone sculpture were the most formative. These varied backgrounds have allowed him to develop a deep understanding of the complexity of the world, where shadows and lights mix to create reality.

Teaching philosophy taught him to understand the world through guidelines, contrasts and differences, essential elements to give meaning to our existence. She understood that these structures are necessary for reality to take shape and become understandable. Without them, reality would remain a formless and unintelligible mass, and thought would be in perpetual turmoil, without reference points.

However, Edwige Lesiourd discovered that photography and writing are areas where these structures are not necessary in the same way. Through her photographs, she explores the limits of identity in matter, whether in nature or through self-portraits. It calls into question what constitutes our "identity" within matter, a matter of which we are part, just like trees, magpies or badgers. This material is shaped and sculpted in our memory and our neural network, thus forming an internal, mental, symbolic and emotional structure.

Edwige Lesiourd's sharp eye captures the raw and incisive moment, offering the impression of progressing in the knowledge of oneself and the world around one. However, it also recognizes the illusions that inevitably burrow into reality, often masking the authenticity and depth of being in artificial forms.

His artistic work explores these layers of reality and illusion, seeking to uproot the veils that mask the true essence of existence. Edwige Lesiourd thus invites us to question our perception of the world and ourselves through her photographs and her writings, encouraging us to go beyond appearances to discover the richness and complexity of reality.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1982
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists