Charles-Henry Bédué

Charles-Henry Bédué. 1980, France.






From the intimacy of families to professionals or social life events, I pay a deep attention at the relation between individuals, environment, objects, and the mystery that bond all of us. Random, chance is my guide through the unknown, to the unknowns, because I believe in fate. In a way, my process has a religious function, according to the double etymological definition of the term:

Relegere: collect, gather | Religare: connect, bind

That said, my artistic process is a service offer to my acquirers, making my own a subject imposed on me. As an artist in residency, I am invited to cover a specific situation. From the content obtained, and the desire it aroused, we can then imagine what the final object could be, its production and purchase cost.
Large format prints, triptychs on folding screen, altarpieces, limited editions of photo book albums etc... at the end the acquirer become the only possessor of a unique object. To seal this relationship, I take a large format photo of the room with the final object display on it.

Graduated from ESAG Penninghen in Paris, master degree.

Expositions / Festivals



2023 Gender Blurred, exposition collective, galerie Almanaque, Mexico

2023 Lo invisible, publication Luna Cornéa no.38, Mexico

2022 École Normale de Musique de Paris, France

2020 L.A Lockdown, publication par Silvermine, France

2019 Au loin, je vois, galerie Au Roi, France

La Maison du Bonheur, Athens Photo Festival, Greece

La Maison du Bonheur, Kassel Photo Book Festival, Germany

2017 Opéra de Paris, collaboration, France

2016 Cercle Vertueux, solo exhibition at Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki,

Finland

Le Culte du Soi, winner Emerging Talent, exhibition MACRO, Roma, Italia

Le Feu aux Poudres, winner La Bourse du Talent-mode, BNF, Paris, France

2015 New Visionaries: Photographer Who Bridge Art + Commerce, Boston, USA

Le Feu aux Poudres, Voies Off, Arles, France

2014 L’Habit fait Le Moine, Foam Talent, Amsterdam, Netherlands

L’Habit fait Le Moine, Voies Off, Arles, France

2013 Le Culte du Soi, Kassel’s Fotobook Festival, Germany

2012 Where I lived and what I lived for, collective exhibition, Oackville Gal