Statement
No Sovereign Author is a duo of photographers based in Belgium. Maroussia Prignot (BE, 1981) and Valerio Alvarez (BE, 1976), after a course at the Academy of Fine Arts and at Blank Paper, have been carrying out collective photographic work since 2015. Their collaboration began on the question of migration, and more particularly of the reception of migrants within the Belgian State. Considering that any image is a construction, and not a faithful reproduction of «reality», their approach is integrative. They set up workshops, co-creation actions, trying to collaborate as much as possible with those who make their photographs. Through these different means, No Sovereign Author attempt to adopt a position that does justice to the complexity of the subjects they address, opening the field to questioning, and thus inviting the viewer to take a stand.
Contact
maroussia.valerio@gmail.com
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Exhibitions
2023 CRP/ Centre Régional de le Photographie Hauts-de-France, Douchy-les-Mines, FR
2023 Un Abécédaire de la Psychiatrie, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, BE
2023 Thematic Apperception Test: Tell us a Story with a Beginning and an End, KIOSK, Ghent, BE
2022 So Far So Good, Polycopies, Paris, FR
2022 So Far So Good, L’image Sans Noms, Liege, BE
2022 So Far So Good, Maison des Cultures de Saint-Gilles, Brussels, BE
2022 Belgium Photobook, Arles, FR
2021 Book Jockey Movement 01, KIOSK, Gand, BE
2021 Naître aux mondes, KIOSK, Gand, BE
2021 Naître aux mondes, Arles, FR
2021 Circulation(s) Hors Les Murs, Pont Saint-Ange, Paris, FR
2020 EXI(S)T, Brussel, BE
2020 Festival Circulation(s)/Here, Waiting, Paris, FR
2019 Fotofinish/Here, Waiting, Rietveld Pavilion, Amersfoort, NL
2018 31 Days of. tiff, Fotomuseum Anvers, FOMU, BE
2018 Kanal-Centre Pompidou Brussels- First Biennial of Photography, BE
2018 Bring Your Photobook Award, Liege, BE
2018 Le fusée de la Motographie/Here, Waiting, EU
2017 Here, Waiting, Fedasil Jodoigne, BE
Publications & Nominations