Biographie
Born in 1977, Mylène Blanc trained at the ENSP (Ecole nationale supérieure de la photographie) in Arles, from which she graduated in 2001. She is involved in numerous audio-visual and photographic projects in France and abroad, as well as being strongly implicated in educational work with a varied public. (Chargée de projets du Pôle National de Ressources en Photographie de Midi-Pyrénées, Responsable du Service Pédagogique du Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines –CEAlex/CNRS – Egypte).
Since 2008 she has been a member of the agency Plainpicture, based in Hamburg.
Présentation
In Mylène Blanc’s photos the elements are chosen for their properties, for the images and symbols they induce or the experiences they contain. Their combinations and their manipulations multiply the metaphors: derisory rituals, like children’s games, to heal, to accept the loss, but also to dream of a different way of being. These disguises, masks, make-do with bits of sellotape and string, erect ephemeral totems in order to laugh at time and death.