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.
After graduating in 2004 from the National School of Arts in Bourges -France- she has worked as a video editor for many years, but made a career decision in 2021 to revisit her original passions and transform them into a new challenging move, exclusively as an artist but stil as a storyteller. The proximity to the moving image strongly influenced her photographic work, an ever-moving portfolio made of "frames" that belong to a more complex narrative.
CURRENT
-JUP photographie magazine:
-Featured Artist vol. 2, Aesthetic of Photography
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2024 Wild boars run under my skirt / Raise your zine festival / The docks, Napoli, Italy.
Wild boars run under my skirt / Mostra Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto, Italy.
2022 Wild boars run under my skirt / Patterns@Plattenvereinigung, Berlin, Germany.
I slid across the dancefloor / DOT gallery, Berlin, Germany.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2024 BBA One Shot award / Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany.
B&W Athens Photography / Athens, Greece.
Say your Name / Campus Bülbül Mah@Saye Collective, Istanbul, Turkey.
2022 Merlinka festival / Creative District -Novi Sad & Belgrade Youth Center, Serbia.
Iosonotheplace Vol. II festival / Turino, Italy.
Raise your zine festival / The docks, Napoli, Italy.
By visceral effect /Starta Arta gallery, New York, USA.
2021 Limitless / Florence Contemporary gallery, Florence, Italy.
Hetz / Kunstverein Roter Keil, Graz, Austria.
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2024 CAHIER d'images / edition in collaboration with Kevin Muhlen, director of Casino Luxembourg-Forum d'art contemporain.
2023 Collect Art / Winter issue.
Superpresent magazine / Provocations & Incitements issue.
JUP magazine.
Features Artist vol.2, Aesthetic of photography.
2022 Book " Wild boars run under my skirt " produced by « The Docks » (64 pages, edition of 50)
Rûm magazine, issue V.
Pinky Thinker Press, issue No.5. Mignolo Art.
AWARDS
2024 Honorable mention in the category youth / Analog Sparks, International Film Photography Awards
Honorable mention in the category of fine arts/nudes / PX3 prix de la photographie Paris
2022 Winner of the "Raise your zine" festival / Prize in collaboration with Il Varco and Passepartout Photo Prize
Winner of the 10th edition of Cdpzine @castelnuevo_fotografia
EDUCATION
2012 Cimdata Medienakademie: Sound & Videodesign, Berlin, Germany.
1998-2004 ENSA Bourges, National Art School, France. (DNAP & DNSEP degree)