Biographie
Valerie Anex was born in 1983 in Lausanne. After having completed international and development studies, she entered the Haute Ecole d’Art et Design of Geneva, where she obtained a Masters in visual arts. She works in photography, cinema and video. In 2008 her short film Au-delà des rêves won the prize for the best foreign film at the Dakar festival. In 2011 her series Ghost Estates received the Neuman prize from the city of Geneva.
Présentation
In Ireland, the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis defines as ghost estates a grouping of more than ten houses where at least half remain unoccupied or unfinished. In October 2010, according to official figures, there were 2846 ghost estates and more than 350,000 unoccupied lodgings in the whole of the Irish Republic. The majority of these ghost estates are to be found in the central and western rural counties of Cavan, Leitrim, Longford and Roscommon.