Artist Statement
Photography is, above all, a material to manipulate for me, and an exploration of my relationship to time, disappearance, memory, and forgetting. Photography is the perfect medium for this question, because time is doubly inherent to it: the time imposed by its process and the time it seems to hold onto a rectangle of paper, the time of memory. Experimenting with the photographic material thus allows me to move intimately within my questioning. Creating "photo-objects" from its very materiality—a kind of precious and sacred relic—is my way of trying to fight against the erasure of time.
Bio
Séverine Chauveau's work has been presented at The Halide Project in Philadelphia, the Barcelona International Festival of Experimental Photography, where she led workshops on the concept of photo-objects, and at the Universities of Avignon and La Réunion. There, she co-hosted a lecture on experimental photography with Marc Lenot, author of the seminal work "Jouer contre les appareils" (Playing Against the Cameras), Arles, Photosynthèses, 2022. Her work has also been published in various art and photography magazines, including Suboart, The Hand Magazine, PhotoTrouvée, Assembla, and Aeonian Magazine. Chauveau studied Fine Arts at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and learned Haute Couture embroidery from Marylène Eyral, winner of the 2025 Influential Women of the World Award, at Studio Eyral.
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