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.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Un Abécédaire de la Psychiatrie, Delta, Namur, BE
2024 Un Monde en Commun, Le Jacques Frank, Brussels, BE
2023 Alissa, CRP/ Centre Régional de le Photographie Hauts-de-France, Douchy-les-Mines, FR
2023 An ABC of Psychiatry, 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 Nom, Liège, 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, Ghent, BE
2021 Naître aux mondes, KIOSK, Ghent, 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, FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, BE
2018 Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Brussels-First Biennal of Photography, BE
2018 Bring Your Photobook Award, Liége, BE
2018 Fusée de la Motographie / Here,Waiting, EU
2017 Here, Waiting, Fedasil Jodoigne, BE
PUBLICATIONS, NOMINATIONS & RESIDENCY
2024 Interview An ABC of Psychiatry, Fisheyes Magazine # 63, FR
2023 An ABC of Psychiatry Review, British Journal of Photography 7916, UK
2023 No Sovereign Author, L’Art Même n°91, BE
2023 CRP/ Centre Régional de le Photographie Hauts-de-France, Douchy-les-Mines, FR
2023 Nomination Prix Leica Oskar Barnack Award, DE
2023 Un Abécédaire de la Psychiatrie, The Eyes Publishing, FR
2023 So Far So Good, Shortlist Best Photobook Arles (Text), Arles,FR
2023 So Far So Good, Shortlist Premio Eloi Gimeno, Barcelona,ES
2023 So Far So Good; On The Language of The Refugee Application, Colin Pantall,Phmuseum, UK
2022 So Far So Good, Witty Books, IT
2021 Naître aux mondes, Kunstenpunt, KIOSK , Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, mòsso, BE
2020 Phmuseum Here Waiting: Or How to Become a Member of Fortress Europe Colin Pantall, UK
2019 Conscientious Photography Magazine Making Pictures With Migrants de Jörg M. Colberg, USA
2019 GUP Getting Across: Collaborative Illustrations of Life in The Waiting Room Erik Vroons, DE
2019 Talent of Futures Photography, EU
2019 Here, Waiting, Art Paper Editions, BE
2018 Shortlist “Dummy Book”, Liège Photobook Festival, BE
2018 Selected for .tiff, Fotomuseum FOMU, Antwerp, BE
2017 La Tête Ailleurs, Médor n°8, BE
maroussia.valerio@gmail.com