Valérie BELIN explores the boundaries between the artificial and the real. Through staged studio photography and digital manipulation, she creates images where human figures and objects appear hyperreal, often blurring the line between animate and inanimate. Her practice questions beauty, identity, and surface, inviting viewers to rethink visual perception.
In Black-Eyed Susan (2011) the boundary between woman and flower dissolves. Faces merge with petals, skin echoes the curve of a leaf, and identity slips into ornament. Valérie BELIN stages a metamorphosis — where the floral grows through the face. The vegetal and the human share the same surface, interlaced in a fragile, luminous balance. What emerges is a being in bloom — a symbiotic form, born of both artifice and life.
