Carolle Bénitah

Biography
Carolle Bénitah

Carolle Bénitah was born in Casablanca (Morocco) in 1965 and passed away in 2024 in Marseille (France).

 

She studied at the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne (promotion 1991). For ten years thereafter, she worked as a fashion designer, before beginning to learn photography in 2001. She graduated from École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, France, with the Jury’s distinction in 2015.
 
Her practice finds its place in the field of the intimate. Today, her work leads to subjects such as family, desire, loss, mourning and confinement, while touching on the universal. She cultivates a protean approach to creation by developing installations through which she questions identity and self-construction. By using materials that populate the domestic world (placemats, monogrammed handkerchiefs, tea towels, wedding trousseau linens, etc.) and trivial objects which she creates and embroiders, she overturns the hierarchy of the arts.
 
Searching for old and forsaken photographs, gathered at garage sales and flea markets, Carolle Bénitah resurrects them into machines of wonder through her intervention with embroideries or golden leaves: golden foils and dots become mirrors or vessels through which one may perceive their reflection.
 
The work of Carolle Bénitah has been published in magazines such as Leica World, Shots Magazine, Photos Nouvelles, Spot, Center for Photography Houston, Foto Noviny, and Lens Culture, among others. 
 

SOLO SHOWS

2023  Broder l’invisible, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris, France

2022 La courbe du bonheur, festival Planches Contact, Deauville, France

2022 Jamais je ne t’oublierai, festival Planches Contact, Hôtel Le Normandy, Deauville, France

2022 Ce qu’on ne peut pas dire, Pavillon Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France

2022 Le Pangolin, Marseille, France

2021 Histoire(s) de famille, L’interstice, Arles, France

2021 Le jour le plus beau, Alessia Palladini Gallery, Milan, Italie

2019 Prospekto Gallerija, Asociation de photographie Lituanie, Vilnius, Lituanie

2019 La Chambre interdite, Galerie 127, Marrakech, Maroc

2016 La Mère, Galerie 127, Marrakech, Maroc

2016 Le Désert de Sodome, Kulte Gallery, Rabat, Maroc

2015 La vie (ré)inventée, Arthotèque Antonin Artaud, Marseille, France

2014 Photos Souvenirs, Galerie Sous Les Étoiles, New York, USA

2012 Photos Souvenirs, Galerie 127, Marrakech, Maroc

2012 Féminité sans tabou, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France

2010 A bed of rose, Galerie Leica, Solms, Allemagne

 

GROUP SHOWS

2024 Or Norme, La Maison Guerlain, Paris, France

2023 Le temps d'une vie, Carmel de Pamiers, France

2022 In the now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Seleciton from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl photography Collection, Brooklyn Museum, USA

2022 Theother story, Moroccan modernism from 1956 till now, Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen, Hollande

2022 Image Gardners, Mc Evoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

2021 In the now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Seleciton from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl photography Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, USA  

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamais je ne t’oublierai, Carolle Bénitah, éditions L’Artière, 2019

Photos souvenirs, Carolle Bénitah, éditeur Kehrer Verlag, 2016

Silent Trip, Carolle Bénitah, 2009

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