about dune varela

Dune Varela born in 1976 in Paris, lives in Montreuil and works at Poush in Aubervilliers. She studied law in Paris and then at the “film studies” department of New York University. Winner of the BMW Residency in 2016, she exhibits in various places in France and abroad, including Les Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles, the Nicéphore Museum Nièpce, the Liège Museum of Fine Arts, at the Lambert Collection in Avignon, Paris Photo and Art Paris among others.

Dune Varela explores film photography, playing both on its heritage dimension and on its fragile and temporary nature. Through the image, which she works like a ruin, she questions the tangle of times and eras, to imagine an archeology of the future. Abandoning the classic printing on a flat surface, she brings a sculptural dimension to the image using materials such as ceramic, marble or concrete in order to materialize the photograph, thus giving it a unique body, both fragile and durable. Her research now extends to the fields of video and cinema.