Agnès Varda & Valentine Schlegel - La Maison de Rosalie

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La Maison de Rosalie is a book featuring a selection of photographs by Agnès Varda and works and portraits by the sculptor Valentine Schlegel.

Rosalie Varda, or Rosalie Varda-Demy, is a French costume designer and artistic director, born on 28 May 1958 in Paris. A costume designer for film, theatre and opera, she is also artistic director of Ciné-Tamaris.

Born in Sète in 1925, Valentine Schlegel lives in Paris. Valentine Schlegel trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier before moving to Paris to devote herself to ceramics. The artist sees her work as sculptures in their own right, directly inspired by nature. Her ceramics, with their primitive yet sophisticated forms, made Valentine Schlegel one of the most important ceramists of the 1950s.

Born in Belgium in 1928, Agnès Varda died in Paris in 2019. Agnès Varda began her career in the 1950s as a photographer for the Festival d'Avignon and the Théâtre National Populaire. After her first film, La Pointe Courte, in 1954, she became one of France's most internationally acclaimed directors and a pioneer of the New Wave. In 2003, at the Venice Biennale, she began her life as a visual artist. Her work combines, alternates and abysses her vision and practice of photography, cinema, video and space.