Photographer Jourdain Kobycheva Polina
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Photographic journey of Polina Jourdain-Kobycheva
Polina Jourdain-Kobycheva développe une poétique du corps et du mouvement, où sa représentation devient non seulement un objet, mais un outil de pensée sur le monde.
Sociologue de la culture, formée en art-thérapie contemporaine, elle inscrit ses recherches et ses expériences de vie dans une pratique artistique sensible à l’histoire et aux formes de subjectivité.
Polina Jourdain-Kobycheva came to photography after fifteen years of practicing sociology, her original profession. His involvement in society, both in terms of research and in terms of the analysis of individuals, has allowed him to sharpen his view of men and their works.
Her first works were architectural photos tracking down the details, scrutinizing the material from which she drew a new order organized by her artistic vision.
Then his interest in dance led to a major project with the dancers of Malandain Ballet Biarritz, crowned in 2016 by an exhibition at the Crypte Sainte-Eugénie in Biarritz, illustrating the festival Time to Love Dance. The body is treated in close-ups to achieve the improbable synthesis of anatomical aesthetics and the dreaminess of curves.
The publication of two art books, one on dance Absolute Delicate Dance, the other on the nude Light Painting on Black Background, announce and confirm a new style always dominated by a singular sensitivity to beauty.
Depuis 2018, son travail s’élargit aux thématiques de la mémoire corporelle et du « corps-histoire », notamment avec le projet En Corps. Que reste-t-il quand le corps du danseur n’est plus performant ? qui interroge la transformation du corps des danseurs après leur carrière. À travers ses photographies, elle explore les notions d’identité, de transmission et de résilience.
En parallèle, elle développe un travail sur la pelote basque, où elle capture le mouvement, la matière et le lien entre sport, culture et tradition. Cette immersion dans le patrimoine vivant se traduit par les ouvrages Pilota Arimak (2021) et Dantza, Pilotari! (2022), ce dernier ayant bénéficié du soutien d’ALCA Nouvelle-Aquitaine et de l’Office Public de la Langue Basque.
Son engagement photographique s’étend également aux thématiques de l’intégration sociale, de la diversité et de l’image du corps à travers divers projets soutenus par l’Union européenne et des institutions locales.
Solo exhibitions
- 2023 Dantza, Pilotari! – Pili Tafernaberry Gallery. Bidart. France
- 2022 Bwater Gestures – Gestu Egerrak. Biarritz. France
- 2021 The Art of Basque Pelota. Saint Jean de Luz. France.
- 2018 In Body. What remains when the dancer's body is no longer performing? Biarritz, France
- 2016 Dance. The absolute delicate. Biarritz, France
- 2015 Photo opening on three themes: nude, architecture and dance “Painting of light”. Bayonne, France
- 2010 Shadow architecture. “Nabokov Apartment” Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 2009 The freedom movement. Exhibition of ballet photographs. St. Petersburg, Russia
Permanent collections
- 2012 State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Collective exhibitions
- 2017 May of the photo. Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France
- 2016 “Nabokov synesthete” Biarritz, France
- 2013 “Beauty without glamour”. State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2012 “II Biennale of Contemporary Photography”. St. Petersburg, Russia
Publications and press
- 2024 Biarritz Basque, Assouline. New York, États-Unis
- 2022 For the beauty of the gesture. “Lighting No. 18”. Bordeaux, France
- 2022 Pilota arimak. “Basque Country Heritage”. Biarritz, France
- 2021 In Gonzalez's Workshop. " Vision ". Bordeaux, France
- 2021 Another vision of the cesta point. " South West ". Saint-Jean de Luz, France
- 2018 Exhibition: Jacques Alberca, aged dancer Paris, France
- 2018 Time to Love Dance Festival – Biarritz Paris, France
- 2018 Hoher, Schneller? Change! Berlin, Germany
- 2017 His photos of dancers take on air and light. " South West ". Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France
- 2016 Polina and her poetic flights of dance. “Basque Country Week”. Bayonne, France
- 2016 The Malandain Ballet, in very close view. " South West ". Biarritz, France
- 2015 A History of Curves. “Basque Country Week”. Bayonne, France
FACES, LOOKS
“Polina Kobycheva photographs faces, looks and postures at the same time, amused and ironic, serious and playful, as if to take up a challenge in the face of the wave of anonymity which crushes and standardizes individuals. In these portraits, we also perceive the vagaries of time passing, which wears out bodies and minds. Finally, we read there, a deep joy, an assurance, as well as a pleasure of feeling alive, again and again. »
–Itxaro Borda
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