ALIZÉ LE MAOULT

The refraction of light in water, where each wavelength produces a color, creates multicolored mosaics that fascinate the artist.Isaac Newton was the first to demonstrate that white light could be broken down into a spectrum of colors, a chromatic range that extends from violet to dark red, including indigo, blue, green,
yellow, and orange.

Beyond the physical phenomenon, it is the shapes of swimming pools that the artist loves, this rigid container with sometimes flexible shapes that contains this fluid mass that changes color depending on the light.

From a very young age, Alizé has been immersed in photography. Her passion was born with her father, a "talented amateur photographer," who transformed the family bathroom into a photo lab.
Initially a favorite role model for his father, it was the cinema that enlisted her, at a very young age, to take her first steps in front of the camera. After studying film in New York, Alizé collaborated with renowned directors such as Walter Salles, Manuel Pradal, Jorge Navas, and Elia Suleiman for the film "Divine Intervention" (Jury Prize at Cannes
in 2002).

The year 1995 was a pivotal year. Cinema took her to the war in Sarajevo for the shooting of Ademir Kenovic's film "The Perfect Circle." This intense professional and emotional experience would later inspire the first installment of the series of portraits of war photographers, "What Their Eyes Saw / Generation Sarajevo...". Alizé has extended this unique project to other war photographers and new generations. Her photographic work relentlessly accompanies her cinematographic trajectory across the world,
she detaches herself from it and tries to extract with photography the beauty and poetry that surrounds us.

Human beings, the city, and nature are her recurring and boundless fields of exploration. From portraiture to abstraction, her visual universes are told in series: Reconciliation I & II (with Romain Léna), Pink Shanghai, Cuba Blues, White Washington, Serenity, Vibrations, Enlightened Nights, Open Skies (Clouds, Geometry of the Sky, Taking Flight, My Observatory). Her cinematic legacy delivers a photographic writing often in sequences. Between solo and group exhibitions, Alizé Le Maoult has exhibited the series "Sable végétal" in Paris alongside Yann Arthus-Bertrand, was featured in Beirut in the "Revealing Talents" section of the Beirut Art Fair with the series "Nuits lumineuses" (lit Nights), and has exhibited in Sarajevo, Caen, Meaux, Verdun, and at the Couvent des Minimes in Perpignan for her portrait work on war photographers, in galleries and fairs, as well as in museums and institutions. Her photographic work is part of private collections and the highly respected Florence and Damien Bachelot Collection, as well as the EURAZEO photography collection, having been a finalist for the EURAZEO Prize in 2021.
Alizé Le Maoult has been invited by the French Institute of Barcelona to exhibit her series of portraits
of war reporters, “What their eyes saw…”, from October 1st to November 24th.