Born in Angers in 1978 in a musician’s family, Sandrine Laroche lives and works in Lyon. She has practiced piano since the age of 8. She got her first camera for her 10th birthday, and started instinctively to take pictures. From that moment, the relationship between music and image (photo and video) will become inseparable.

Arriving in Lyon in 2005 for music and piano studying, she also refined her technique of enlarging with Didier Nicole. She discovers the joy of films, overprint, texture, substance which permeates her work in a plastic, poetic and musical harmony.

This love of texture helps her to focus on “the other” and express her fascination for the body. Her approach, not too far from drawing and painting, goes to the limits of human representation.

She exposes her works in Galleries, work as an independent as a composer and film-maker. She is inspired by her living, her pains, her joy, and some hard things she goes through in her past. The photographs and films of Sandrine Laroche experiment the themes that she is close to: the challenge of moving into adulthood, identity quest, the other, emotions, sex and death.

Since 15 years ago, she has been working on an autobiography with photographs, videos, music compositions and poems. Her body became object and subject.

This identity quest through art, the exploration of human nature, the questions about existence, her fragility, her animalness, her absurdity are without contest the answer to a hard childhood.

Photography, music, video, writing are necessary in the life of the artist, are a necessity and go along with her, as a raft on an agitated river.

Fantasmagories have been made some years ago. Some of these photos are self-portraits and complete a long work still in progress started fifteen years ago, composed of images, videos and poems. Like the serie “De profundis”, almost all these photos are silver overprints. They both raise the question about the limits of human representation and taboos in our society. Why this constant, immodest need to show oneself ? And more generally, what can photos represent ? Nudity is everywhere but disease seems to be disturbing.

I use texture to bring poetry, and because it adds a painting render to these x-rays, that becomes step by step animals, objects…

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