Question identity through art and photography
Since its inception, visual artist Stéphanie Solinas has contributed to the atelier-laboratoire (tutorial programme) on sociophotography, supporting photography students at the ENS Louis Lumière with their creative outputs (see article “Sociophotography: A methodology for building a critical imaginaire of digital technologies” of Sophie Jehel).
In this interview, the artist Stéphanie Solinas presents her conception of investigation and, referring to some of her main works (Dominique Lambert, Le Pourquoi Pas? [The Why Not?], Sans Titre [Untitled] (M. Bertillon), Devenir soi-même [Become Oneself]1), helps us to understand the heuristic and imaginative potential of analogy. Exploring themes of identity, the invisible and belief, her conceptual approach to artistic creation paradoxically relates to “documentary” research, by the very fact of the methods she uses to problematise them—methods which include the invention of protocols that integrate, mimic, or distort scientific, police, medical, even ethnographic inquiry procedures, in a poetic and often critical manner.
Interview conducted in October 2022
1Since its inception, visual artist Stéphanie Solinas has contributed to the atelier-laboratoire (tutorial programme) on sociophotography, supporting photography students at the ENS Louis Lumière with their creative outputs (see article “Sociophotography: A methodology for building a critical imaginaire of digital technologies” of Sophie Jehel).