CATHERINE BALET

Graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Catherine Balet began her artistic career as a painter before moving to photography in the early 2000s.

Her photographic work then took on a sociological dimension. Her series of portraits of teenagers entitled “Identity” anchored her work in a contemporary reality. In “Strangers in the Light”, she integrated a pictorial dimension like paintings playing with chiaroscuro. From 2013 to 2016, Catherine Balet worked on her series “Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes” in which she paid a vibrant tribute to the masters of photography featuring her friend and model, Ricardo Martinez Paz. From Nadar to contemporary trends, through Man Ray and Martin Parr, she has captured the history of photography, and looked for ways to reflect on its future. With her series “Moods in a Room”, Catherine Balet continues her experimentation by reinvesting the technical transformations of the photographic medium and wonders about the border that separates painting from photography. In her latest series, entitled “Endless”, Catherine Balet brilliantly blends imaginary to reality so to tame the infinite versatility of nature over the seasons. The series, as a true ode to life, is an invitation to embrace the ineluctable force of time.

SELECTED ARTWORKS

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PUBLICATIONS

SOLO SHOWS

2022 ”Endless”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2021 ”Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes”, Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse
2020 ”Moods in a Room”, Photo London 2020, Londres
2020 ”Moods in a Room”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2019 ”Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes”, Fola Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires
2019 ”Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes”, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg
2018 ”In Vivo ; From Earth With Love”, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen
2017 ”Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes”, Maison de la Photo, Lille
2017 Festival du Portrait de Vichy, Vichy
2016 ”Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes”, Wroclaw 2016, Capitale culturelle européenne, Wroclaw
2016 Dali International Photography Festival, Chine
2016 « Wings of Fantasy », Beijing
2016 ”Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes”, Bigaignon, Paris, France

GROUP SHOWS

2023 ”Chair de temps”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2019 ”United”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2019 ”Art on a Postcard”, PhotoLondon, London
2018 Troisième biennale Beijing Photo, Beijing
2018 ”Amoureux”, Hôtel & Spa La Belle Juliette, Paris