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Jean-Claude Bélégou 1989/2000 "photobiographie"
Even if the works of this period by Jean-Claude Bélégou cannot be entirely linked to the "photobiography" movement because his images are always fabricated and staged (it would be just as much auto-fiction), they are marked by the appearance of a systematic work of self-portraiture and exploration of his intimate territory. The work of self-portraiture, always experienced as an ordeal, is the vector of an interrogation of subjectivity, not individual or psychological, but existential.
Creation residency in 1990 in Italy for Visages, residency at the French Institute in Naples.
Winner of the Villa Medici Outside the Walls Prize awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992. Creation stay in Scandinavia for 8 months in 1992 for ERRES/Vers le Grand Nord.
Gilles Mora devotes two books to him, combining images and texts, published in issues 26 (1992) and 29 (1994), of the journal "Les Cahiers de la Photographie", which are entirely devoted to him.
Taught photography in 1990/91 at Photo Studies in France (Spéos), then from 1992 to 1995 taught theoretical aesthetics at the UFR of Visual Arts of the University of Paris VIII. Teaching of the history of photography at the University of Rouen. At that time, he also welcomed trainees into his studio.
After Erres, he stopped photography for three years and, confirming his attachment to the act of writing, devoted himself in 1994/96 to his first novel: Ibidem.
At the beginning of 1999, the Municipal Gallery of the Château d'Eau in Toulouse devoted a major retrospective to him over twenty years of work
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