Olivier Larivière - Les Hotels Paris Rive Gauche like photography

December 2007: Olivier Larivière

And even before

“And even before
my thought, hesitating on the threshold of time and shape,
had identified the dwelling by thinking of the circumstances,
it – my body – remembered the type of bed,
where the doors were, the light coming through the windows,
the existence of a corridor, each of these, with the thought I had had
when falling asleep, and again when waking up”

Hotel de la Sorbonne

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Olivier Larivière

www.olivierlariviere.com
lariviere_olivier@yahoo.fr
Tel : 067347567

Biography

29 years old, with a diploma from Paris' Arts Décoratifs, my practical work is split between drawing and painting on one side, and photography on the other. The humanist approach that guides my photographic work usually finds its inspiration in a constantly changing environment, a modest, ironic and compassionate look at people. I like showing these moments of no “ponctum”, buHt nonetheless filled with affect that show us a little more of human nature.

Exhibitions

February 2008
Collective exhibition being prepared for the Zach Feuer Gallery, New York. Curator: Yuko Nakajima.

June 2007
Collective exhibition at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

April 2007
Collective exhibition at Ouchamps in an old parsonage

February 2007
Personal exhibition at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

November 2006
Collective Exhibition at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, as part of Photo Month (Mois de la Photo).

March 2005
Between tradition and modernism, collective Exhibition at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris.

November 2004
One of ten people selected for the 2004 Leica Prize, with participants from the ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs),the Royal College of Art and the Kunsthochschule in Berlin.

May-June 2004
Contemporary Art Territories, collective exhibition about New York, at the ENSAD.

June-September 2004
Man at the Heart of Contemporary Art, collective exhibition at Niort, organised by the MAIF insurance company.