Biographie
Born in 1978, Sandrine Elberg studied at the Beaux Arts de Paris, graduating in 2003, since which she has been a practicing photographer. Winner of both the FNAC and Nikon competitions in 2008 and the Canon–Le Monde de l’Image prize in 2009, her work has been shown at Voies Off (Arles), Jeonju-Photofestival (S. Korea), and ManifestO (Toulouse). Sandrine Elberg has a special relationship with Russia, a country where she lived as a visiting artist, and where her work has been shown on a number of occasions, notably at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art during the 8th Photobiennale Moscow/Paris
Présentation
At one and the same time spectator and actress, in search of a missing image of her origins, Sandrine Elberg invites herself into the salons of her muscovite hostesses. Dressed up in their finest clothes and posing as they see fit, the young women who enter into this complicity reconstitute a sort of lost world, that of a young girl’s dreams, and perhaps also that of a West long since past: the magazines of the 50’s, with their romantic photos, nowadays no longer credible.