Regina Virserius, born in Helsingborg, Sweden, graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieur des
beaux-arts of Paris in 1997.
She was in residency at the Academy Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, and in 2000 she received the
Villa Medici of Rome grant and took part in the exhibition Tutto Normale.
In 2006, she was shortlisted for the Jeu de Paume prize and was awarded the
Grand Prix from the Institute de France’s Academy of Fine
Arts.
Her work has been featured in national and international collections and is frequently displayed
at the Rencontre d’Arles.
In 2010, she was part of the Biennale in Moscow and was made a ‘Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et
des lettres’ by the cultural minister. In 2014 she shows her video artworks from the collection
Frac - Ile de la Réunion in a duo show in the USA. In 2015 she exhibits Insomnia, her fifth
personal show in her Parisian gallery. Regina recently participated in the exhibition L’Art et
la Machine at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon and Weather Report at Bonn Bundeskunsthalle.
Regina lives and works in Paris and is represented by Gallery Eric Dupont in Paris, and Arielle d’Hauterives in Brussels. She also holds public art talks about her recent work and exhibitions.
Artist Statement
Educated as a fine artist, her work is nowadays focused on photography and video. The notion of time is a recurring theme in Regina Virserius’ work: time which passes, which transforms, which is put into perspective through the body, the landscape, places, objects and rituals.
The post-modernist thinking and structuralist methodologies such as Foucault and Deleuze, gave many of her works their conceptual dimension. The plastic, artistic and intellectual influences, which we call “the photography tableau”, were decisive in the development of her artistic path. In a general manner, Regina Virserius’ work seeks to explore the fundamental question of the perception of reality and its transformation through photography, the optical illusion. The bodies, portraits, landscapes, objects and still lifes bring a stillness to the subject through photographic isolation. This stillness conveys a timeless presence and a significance which go beyond the subject itself. It is on these bases that the artist creates the photographic images, with the decisive approach of a visual artist.
Contact
To contact Regina Virserius, please send an email to:
regina@reginavirserius.com