Biographie
Born in 1985, Léa Harbourdin studied applied arts at Estienne College before joining the ENSP in Arles, from where she graduated in 2010. Her work was exhibited during last year’s Rencontres International de la Photographie at Arles, after being presented at the International Photography Biennale in China (2008), the International Roaming Biennale (Tehran, Belgrade, Berlin) in 2008 and 2009, and at the Europa Punkt in Berlin (June 2009). Léa Harbourdin is co-founder of the project Eurohophop with 27 other photographers from 27 European countries.
Présentation
Tracing an insurmountable frontier; the abyss between man and the animals, which swings from curiosity to incomprehension yet constantly recalls the impossibility, might describe the venture that Léa Harbourdin has set herself. The encounters are present, and the images fluctuate between the enamoured and the predatory. […] It is the impulse of a marked eroticism which is present in Complaints Book. Sixteen images of one metre fifty high plunge us into a troubling relationship of beauty, sensuality and brutality.