Emmanuelle

Nègre

Video Training Specialist

Emmanuelle Nègre is an artist who graduated from Villa Aron in Nice in 2010.
Her installation work uses cinema as a medium and dissects the space between the screen and the projector to explore the materiality of light at the moment fiction passes through it. Through the use of mirrors and filters, her installations distort, refract, and recompose, creating a distance between us and what we believe we are seeing. Emmanuelle Nègre presented this work during her first solo exhibition at Villa Cameline in Nice in 2015. Based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 2011 to 2013, Emmanuelle Nègre developed a program of film screenings and exhibitions at Catalyst Arts, then joined LaStation, an artist residency and exhibition space in Nice, from 2013 to 2017.

Starting in 2016, following a residency in New York that introduced her to hologram production, Emmanuelle Nègre began a new research project and proposed a reflection on the materiality of the image. The substances that reveal the image become both the working tool and the subject being represented. Her work explores alternative silver-based development and printing techniques using plants to highlight the connections between the plant world and film, offering a critical perspective on ecological issues.

An exhibition in Paris at the Film Gallery of re:voir in 2017 showcased this work, which falls within the realm of experimental and alternative visual practices.
In 2022, she joined the “Chromoculture” research and creation project at ENSAD Limoges for a three-year residency, during which she continued her research into eco-friendly silver-based processes and the coloring of film stock using dye plants. She directed the film “Couleurs du jardin,” supported by Light Cone and the Atelier 105 residency.

Since 2023, Emmanuelle Nègre has lived and worked in Paris, where she is a video instructor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.