French photographer, born in 1993
Lives in Lyon
@charbonnier_julie
Project supported: MP#04 – Le velours des ronces

Born in 1993 and living in Lyon, Julie Charbonnier is a professional contemporary dancer and self-taught photographer. She places the body and connection at the heart of her artistic research, in particular bodies at work, whose states, affects and boundless commitment she dissects in the folds of their flesh. This dual career unfolds in personal projects and cultural mediation workshops in which she combines performance and image.  

“Organicity and presence, central quests in my career as a professional dancer, have found in photography a means of offering dance – the art of crossing – the opportunity to become a trace.
Le Velours des ronces was born of the need to understand the silence weighing on the scarred bodies of the dancers around me. Fears and pains are as if sealed in the tissues of a body that is being called upon to become a high-performance tool. This opened up unheard-of subjects for discussion, words as wounded as they were fervent, evoking physical and psychological suffering as well as the exaltation of a body charged with desire, ardor and breath.
Today, this series goes beyond the dancers’ bodies to invent a space for reparation, emancipation and celebration of women’s power. Bodies as matter, bodies as refuge, bodies as advantage. For we are our bodies. ”