Valérie Mréjen
©image: Maeva Aubert
° 1969
Born in France, lives in Paris (France).
Artist, photographer, videoartist and writer, Valerie Mréjen multiplies the medium to better explore the possibilities of language, and to make her videos, she seeks inspiration in her memories, in day-to-day occurrences, and cruel and ironic details from her life. She combines different types of stories that she rewrites and reworks to later use them in her work with comedians and people around her. Valérie Mréjen is also the author of the documentary Pork and milk that in 2004 found fame. She has exhibited her work at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco, at the Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008) and at the Tate Modern in London (2006). Her first feature fiction, En ville, co-directed with Bertrand Schefer, was released in France after a premiere at the directors fortnight in Cannes 2011.
Works
>Valérie Mréjen, Eau Sauvage, 2004.Book, ink, paper, 17 x 10.2 cm, 92 p, language: French (available in Spanish and Swedish), publisher: Editions Allia, Paris, ISBN: 2844851363.
>Valérie Mréjen, Mon Grand-Père , 2007.Book, ink, paper, 17 x 10.2 cm, 63 p, language: French (available in Spanish and Swedish), publisher: Editions Allia, Paris, ISBN: 284485009X.
>Valérie Mréjen, L´Agrume, 2010.Book, ink, paper, 17 x 10.2 cm, 77 p, language: French (available in Spanish, Swedish and German), publisher: Editions Allia, Paris, ISBN: 2844850715.
>Valérie Mréjen, Forêt Noire, 2012.Book, ink, paper, 12 x 18.5 cm, 123 p, language:French, publisher: Paris: P.O.L. éditeur, ISBN: 978-2818014851.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.
> Exhibition: THE BOOK LOVERS - A Project about Artist Novels. 25 January 2013 - 09 March 2013.
> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.
> Exhibition: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ARTWORK BECOMES A NOVEL?. 07 December 2012 - 21 April 2013.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.