SANDRINE ELBERG
Born in 1978, Sandrine Elberg is a photographer and author who lives and works in France. After studies in audiovisual cinema and plastic arts, her training was reinforced by studies in MFA Digital Media Art at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver (Canada) and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, from which she graduated in 2003.
Since 2015, his work has focused on the theme of astronomy and science. Influenced by the surrealists, she experimented with the very consistency of the photographic medium by declining its technical and aesthetic possibilities. She forges a poetic relationship with the myth and the iconography of the cosmos where true and false pretenses mingle.
Sandrine Elberg participates in more than a hundred exhibitions and events related to photography and contemporary art within prestigious institutions, such as « Black and white an aesthetic of photography » from the BNF collection at the Grand Palace in Paris. In 2022, the artist is a laureate of La Villa Kujoyama / French Institute in Japan. She presents her second personal exhibition “ASTRA” in Paris then during the Rencontres de la photographie in Arles.
Sandrine attaches particular importance to the editions that complement her exhibitions. After the success of her first self-published book « Cosmic », she publishes her second monograph « M.O.O.N », distinguished by Best Photography Book Award at Photo Espana, by the jury of the Nadar Prize, then Lucie Photobook Prize in New York and finally the HIP. His work is also the subject of several portfolios published in the Revue Espace(s) du CNES, Les Others, Fisheye Magazine, Halogénure, Response Photo.
Since 2019, Sandrine Elberg has been represented by the Fisheye Gallery.
THEME : Space sciences
« Effet spatial »
Artistic stroll at the Cité de l’Espace. September 30, 2022 to January 1, 2023
Are we in organic matter, the cosmos or a poetic space?
In her photographic approach, Sandrine Elberg is primarily interested in the materiality of photography and its support. Indeed, she uses both photosensitive photographic paper and aluminum plates to accommodate the image or the photographic gesture. The same goes for the creative process, which mixes and juxtaposes silver and digital tools and experiments. For seven years, his work has crystallized around photographic research relating to a cosmic imagination and having recourse to frequent games of scale.
For the exhibition »Effet spatial” at the Cité de l’Espace in Toulouse, still anchored in this stellar universe, Sandrine Elberg offers an artistic stroll through visual and scenic proposals. Science and photography explore reality thanks to observation tools from the infinitely large (telescope) to the infinitely small (microscope). The borders between the visible and the invisible are thus redrawn.
As part of the Residence 1+2 Factory at the Cité de l’Espace, Sandrine Elberg is developing her research at the frontiers of the invisible and photographic infinity. The artist blurs the tracks of a real astral photography from archives of the photographic collection of the Midi-Pyrenees Observatory and is also inspired by scientific images produced by researchers from the CNRS Occitanie Ouest at the center of integrative biology in Toulouse.
Ultimately, Sandrine Elberg knowingly plays with the display devices in the exhibition spaces of the Cité de l’Espace. These works testify to the ability to reconfigure our cosmos beyond the visible to discover planets, lunar rocks and starry skies; a side of our collective imagination linked to the history of scientific discoveries since the birth of astronomy.
Thanks to the team of the image library of the Toulouse Municipal Archives .