Born in 1977 in France, lives and works in Berlin.
In the middle of the 1990s Flavie Guerrand was a committed member of the French techno scene. Organizing raves parties offered her a distinct form of spectatorship. A lens that enabled insightful depictions of the underground culture and the fresh, intense and unparalleled energy that bleeds from these spaces. Rave parties were a central place of emancipation for minorities and the party a place of life necessary as much as it is for creation. This perspective is striking and evident in her work today.
She only began to film and photograph the lifestyles she led some years later. With almost only archives of her previous clandestine nightlife, many flyers and audio recordings, she felt the urge to capture every experience she had through her camera. Her early forays into video work featured documentation of the parties she continues to organise in her living space - an old garage - and later in a basement in an attempt to keep the legacy and the spirit of free parties. The legacy unravels further, when she moves to Berlin in 2009 and finds her space in he blooming queer scene. Notably by photographing the queer « Italo Disco » parties at the now legendary night bar Ficken 3000, marked by a libertine and sulphureous atmosphere, typical of Berlin’s nightlife.
Took over the span of nearly 20 years, the series "I slid across the dancefloor" has been shown internationally since 2008 and has undergone a constant selection and review process which takes on its full extent during slideshows: the proximity to the moving image -she has worked as video editor- also strongly influenced her photographic work, an ever-moving portfolio made of "frames" that belong to a more complex narrative.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Wild boars run under my skirt / Patterns@Plattenvereinigung, Berlin, Germany.
I slid across the dancefloor / DOT gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2009
I slid across the dancefloor / La Fabrica gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2008
I slid accross the dancefloor / Nothing But@SDW, Berlin, Germany.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Merlinka/Queer Europe Photo Exhibition: Creative District -Novi Sad & Belgrade Youth Center-Belgrade / Serbia.
Festival Iosonotheplace Vol. II / Turino, Italy.
By visceral effect /Starta Arta gallery, New York, USA.
2021
Limitless / Florence Contemporary gallery, Florence, Italia.
Hetz / Kunstverein Roter Keil, Graz, Austria.
2010
New directions: Moments of being / Wall Space gallery, Santa Barbara, USA.
2008
Filmer la musique / Point Ephémère, Paris, France.
2006
A-21, Osaka, Japan.
2004
Split / Glaxbox gallery, Paris, France.
Objet de transit / Haïduc gallery, Bourges, France.
2003
Festival Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France.
Court toujours / Le Batofar, Paris, France.
2002
Le temps d'un weekend / Emmetrop, Bourges, France.
Festival des jeunes réalisateurs / Theater Bernard-Marie Koltes, Paris, France.
Festival Vidéodrome, La baule, France.
2001
Science-fiction collectif / La Femis, Paris, France.
Publications
2022
Rûm magazine, issue V.
Pinky Thinker Press, Issue No.5. Mignolo Art.
2020
Brice Dellsperger & Marie-France Rafael, On gender performance. Aaron Bogart Press.
2010
Teller Magazine: The art of Storytelling.
2009
Ninja Magazine, Lighthouse Wire Magazine, South Jersey Underground Magazine.
Education
2012
Cimdata Medienakademie: Sound & Videodesign, Berlin, Germany.
1998-2004
ENSA Bourges, National Art School, France. (DNAP & DNSEP degree)