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"So, in the beginning, was Chaos, and then the Earth in the vast bosom and Tartarus dark in the depths of the vast earth, and then Love, the most beautiful of the immortals, who bathes in his languor both gods and men, tames hearts and triumphs over the wisest wills."
Hesiod, Theogony (7th century BC)
Hesiod, Theogony (7th century BC)
Letizia Le Fur's work Mythologies draws its roots from two passions that have inhabited and accompanied the artist since her childhood: Greek mythology and the search for beauty.
Guided by classical poets, notably Hesiod and Ovid, Letizia freely interprets the myths here, which she revisits with her sensitivity and a contemporary aesthetic approach. Letizia transforms and transcends what surrounds her, embellishes reality, colors the grays to invent a world of den/reference where she can settle down, repair herself and find balance in the midst of harshness. This search for an aesthetic refuge and a state of plenitude borders on obsession in her, and one thinks of Stendhal writing, in the essay On Love, "Beauty is only the promise of happiness". Her quest for harmony and beauty, like the practice of a cult, in opposition to ugliness and the inappropriate, is liberated and removed from the codes in force, unexpected, absolute, sometimes secret. L.S
Guided by classical poets, notably Hesiod and Ovid, Letizia freely interprets the myths here, which she revisits with her sensitivity and a contemporary aesthetic approach. Letizia transforms and transcends what surrounds her, embellishes reality, colors the grays to invent a world of den/reference where she can settle down, repair herself and find balance in the midst of harshness. This search for an aesthetic refuge and a state of plenitude borders on obsession in her, and one thinks of Stendhal writing, in the essay On Love, "Beauty is only the promise of happiness". Her quest for harmony and beauty, like the practice of a cult, in opposition to ugliness and the inappropriate, is liberated and removed from the codes in force, unexpected, absolute, sometimes secret. L.S
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published by Rue du Bouquet
2021
88 pages
dimensions : 23.5 x 32 cm
500 copies
2021
88 pages
dimensions : 23.5 x 32 cm
500 copies
about Letizia Le Fur
Letizia Le Fur grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis. A graduate of the Tours School of Fine Arts in 1998, Letizia Le Fur was initially trained in painting. Encouraged by the artist and teacher Valérie Belin, she quickly directed her aesthetic quest towards photography.
Winner of the Paris Je t'aime x Photodays Prize (2023-24), the BNF Grand Order (2022), the Leica/Alpine Prize (2019) and the MEP Fenêtres Ouverts Prize (2020), she is also chosen as a resident by the Planches Contact festival in Deauville 2020, by the Incadaques festival 2021 and by the Vichy Portrait(s) festival in 2023.
Nominated for the Niepce Prize in 2022.
His work is the subject of collective and personal exhibitions, as well as publications.
His books are published by the publishing houses Rue du Bouquet, Filigranes and RVB Books.
Letizia Le Fur's work, constantly navigating between reality and fiction, explores the different fields of representation of beauty.
From his studies emerges the knowledge of the history of art, the mastery of light, the attention to color. This very particular color, which the photographer works like a painter, in small touches. And, like a painter mixes colors on his palette, Letizia Le Fur isolates and transforms, corrects, adds, exalts the tones, amplifies them to transcend reality and create this sensation of an unreal world, perched between the fantastic and the dream. Her quest for harmony and beauty, like the practice of a cult, in opposition to ugliness and the inappropriate, is liberated and removed from the codes in force, unexpected, absolute, sometimes secret.
In parallel with her artistic work, Letizia Le Fur has collaborated for more than 20 years with major brands (Air France, Belmond, Barrière, Ruinart, Perrier Jouët, Château Canon, etc.) and with the press (AD, New York Times , Grazia, Voyageurs du Monde, Les Echos…)
She has also been a Leica ambassador since 2019.
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published by Rue du Bouquet
2021 (1st edition)
500 copies
2021 (1st edition)
500 copies