JOSEPHINE MICHEL IS A PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST CURRENTLY BASED IN BRUSSELS.
THE HEARING EXPERIENCE BOTH STIMULATES AND SHAPES HER IMAGES, WHICH ARE INFUSED BY THE ACOUSTIC QUALITIES OF THE ENVIRONMENT, DRAWING ON WHAT PAUL SHARITS CALLED ‘OPERATIONAL ANALOGUES BETWEEN WAYS OF SEEING AND WAYS OF HEARING’. TO THIS END, HER PHOTOGRAPHS OFTEN ENGAGE PROCESSES THAT ARE COMMON TO THE VISUAL AND THE SONIC, SUCH AS IMPROVISATION, TEXTURE AND REVERBERATION. EQUALLY IMPORTANT ARE THE WAY WE FORM VISUAL GESTALTS FROM REDUCED INFORMATION, AND, IN A BROADER SENSE, THE TENSIONS THAT SHAPE OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE MATERIALITY OF THE WORLD.
EDUCATION
2012 Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Department of Visual Communication, School of Communications, Royal College Of Art, London -Thesis “The Sonic Photograph”, under the supervision of Al Rees and Jon Wozencroft
2005 MA in Photography, École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles - High distinctions
2002 DEUG in Philosophy, Université Paris-Sorbonne
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2014 Halfway to White, Wu Galeria, Bienal de la Fotografia de Lima
2013 Photography and Sound: Affect, Vibration and Interferences, Royal College of Art, London
2012 Halfway to White, Rencontres d’Arles
2007 Lude, La Camara Lucida Galeria, Barcelona
2007 Lude, Espace Guillaume, Paris
SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2019 Photography on a postcard, photo london
2018 The Family of no man, rencontres de la photographie, arles
2017 Seeing Sound, HAFNY, NYC
2016 Light Touch Film Night, Pie Factory, Margate
2016 (Im)materialists, Close Up Film Centre, London
2016 The Ecology of Attention: Bedtime Stories, Agora, Berlin
2015 Field Effects, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
2015 Memorias Imperiales, Alliance Française, Lima
2014 Imagenes Ayer y Hoy, Casa Rimac, Lima
2014 Fotografias, Wu Galeria, Lima
2014 Nouveau Paysage, Galerie Binôme, Paris
2013 Plat(t)form 2013, Fotomuseum, Winterthur
2012 Show RCA 2012, Royal College of Art, London
2012 Fieldwork II, Exhibition Road, London
2012 Objectified, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2011 Fieldwork, Regency Town House, Brighton
2008 Filigranes, 20 ans d’Edition, L’imagerie, Lannion
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2019 THE HEAT EQUATION, W/MIKA VAINIO, TOUCH CODEX 2
2015 Halfway to White, book/CD, in collaboration with the Finnish composer and sound artist Mika Vainio; Touch Folio 001
2007 Lude, book/DVD, Filigranes Éditions
WRITINGS BY
2017 Vers Mika Vainio, Optical Sound n°5
2016 Mauvais genre, ed.sébastien lifshitz, photomonitor
2015 The Voyage of Discovery by Carly Steinbrunn, Photomonitor
2014 A Perpetual Season by Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine, Photomonitor
2012 The Sonic Photograph, MPhil thesis, Royal College of Art
ESSAYS, REVIEWS, PRESS
2020, Mélodies métalliques, Fisheye
2019 Lyric Intangibility and the Objects of Science: On The Heat Equation, Museum & Society, BY Sophie Thomas
2019 The Heat Equation, le Son du grisli
2019 The Heat Equation, Dark Entries
2019 The Heat Equation, Blow Up
2019 The Heat Equation, Ondarock
2019 The Heat Equation, Transistora
2019 The Heat Equation, Impatto Sonoro
2019 The Heat Equation, Documentary Evidence
2016 Discussion with Christiane Monarchi around Mercures, Hatje Cantz Fotoblog
2016 Joséphine Michel & Mika Vainio – Halfway to White, review by Aurelio Cianciotta, Neural
2016 The Pixel is a Note of Birdsong, essay by Daniel C Blight, Source, issue 85
2016 The Unified Artwork, review by Aimee Mollaghan, Source, issue 85
2015 Fade to White, Brainwashed, by Craig Deaton,
2015 Texture and Timbre, interview by Roy Exley, The Photographers’ Gallery Blog
2015 Le blanc contient toutes les couleurs comme il peut engendrer toutes les sensations, entretien, Fisheye
2015 Half-Heard Rhymes, essay by Justin Coombes, Photomonitor
2014 Extract from Halfway to White, Le Nouvel Esprit du Vandalisme
2014 From Halfway to White, essay by Nicky Hamlyn, Photography and Culture
2014 Libro de la Bienal de la Fotografia de Lima
2013 Layers in Tension: the Photographs of Joséphine Michel, essay by Nicky Hamlyn, Sequence
2012 L’École Française, Rencontres d’Arles 2012 catalogue, Actes Sud
2012 À mi-chemin du blanc, Brigitte Hernandez, Le Point
2012 Royal College of Art Show 2012 catalogue
2012 Qu’avez-vous fait de la photographie? 30 ans de L’ENSP, Actes Sud
2011 Extract from (Un)Frozen Improvisation, Le Monde des Livres
2011 Roy Exley interviews Joséphine Michel, Photomonitor
AWARDS, BURSARIES, RESIDENCIES
2016 AGORA: AFFECT Residency, Berlin. The Ecology of Attention
2013 Plat(t)form 2013, Fotomuseum Winterthur. Selected.
2012 RCA Research Bursary, HEFCE
2011 RCA Research Bursary, HEFCE
2010 RCA Research Bursary, HEFCE