What if Charles Baudelaire’s famous book, Le peintre de la vie moderne, had been written in Arles? The french author might have encountered l’Arlésienne… and what would he have thought about her? This is what Lila Neutre is suggesting you to imagine. Mixing archival documents and contemporary photographs, she stages the gestures and toilette of Provençal women; between myth and fantasy, reality and fiction.
Artiste
Lila Neutre was born in 1989. Having completed her master’s degree at École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, she is currently working on a photography PhD in southern France.Over a span of four years, she has been focusing her work on notions of identity and self-presentation in contemporary society. The social body assumes the role of the ultimate canvas for Lila’s artistic activity. Her research, both photographic and sociological, has even led her to Japan where she has worked with the cosplay community. Most recently, her work has been shown in various group exhibitions in Marseille and Kyoto, in partnership with the Kansaï French Institute and the International Festival Kyotographie.
01 / L’objectif / Hélène Bellenger
02 / La fureur du Dragon / Florian Da Silva
03 / Le testament d’Orphée / Elsa Leydier
04 / Les salins / Jeanne Grouet
05 / Deux enfants qui s’aiment / Julie Hrnčířová
06 / Le Cirque / Amélie Blanc
14 / Cadre sur le Rhône / Amélie Blanc
15 / Contemplation Instantanée / Quentin Carrière
16 / Quai – Arles / Amélie Blanc
17 / Le rocher / Vivien Ayroles
18 / Miroirs-étang du Vacarès / Lexane Laplace
19 / Le visage / Florent Basiletti
20 / Les mimosas / Estelle Ogura
21 / La route / Barnabé Moinard
22 / Le Rhône / Daniel Robles
23 / Vue de train / Quentin Carrière
24 / Les amandiers / Lexane Laplace
25 / Les pins penchés / Vivien Ayroles
26 / Peinture / Loeiza Jacq
27 / Paysage Nicolas de Staël / Lila Neutre
28 / Les Alyscamps / Lise Dua
29 / La barque / Françoise Galeron
30 / Eloge au Pays d’Arles / Elsa Leydier
31 / L’Arlésienne / Elsa Leydier
32 / La Bibliothèque / Steven Daniel
33 / La Sainte-Victoire / Leslie Moquin
34 / Baudelaire et l’Arlésienne / Lila Neutre
35 / Saint-Exupéry / Elsa Leydier
36 / La chèvre de M. Seguin / Florian Maurer
37 / La Vaporeuse / Lila Neutre
40 / Les gorges du Gardon / Agathe Mouchès
41 / Les Arènes / Steven Daniel
42 / Le train la Côte bleue / Agathe Mouchès
43 / Les salins / Leslie Moquin
44 / Le MAPA de nuit / Steven Daniel
45 / La piscine Tournesol / Leslie Moquin
46 / Les fouilles de la Verrerie / Pauline Rousseau
47 / Le Pont de Fourques / Florian Maurer