Vers l'infini 032 (2023) Photography by Véronique Durruty

French photographer and visual artist, Véronique Durruty explores the senses and sensations through real or interior journeys. She questions beauty, reality, and the importance of the imaginary and the invisible. She likes to mix genres and media.
In almost 30 years, Véronique Durruty has published more than 40 works and exhibited solo around the world: London, Brussels, New York, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo... Her works are part of public funds and private collections: Belgium, Canada, Spain, France, Great Britain, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Senegal, USA...
In La photographie en France, des origines à nos jours (Ed. Flammarion), Claude Nori writes about his work: "His camera transmits emotions and vibrations in a harvest of skin-deep, sensual, mysterious images, always harmoniously composed (...). His personal work exalts the harmony and beauty of colors, sounds, smells, landscapes and bodies, of which several books of great aesthetic and formal freedom constitute true creative originals."

Since 1999, she has devoted herself exclusively to her artistic practice.
In 2001, her work on the sensations of the night in the world was exhibited by Claude Nori at Biarritz Terre d'images and seduced Catherine Laulhère, who runs Flammarion publishing. The book "Exterior Night" was published in 2002 and the photos it contains were the subject of a major personal exhibition of 100 photos on the gates of the Luxembourg Gardens and at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2003. Véronique Durruty then continued her poetic exploration of the theme of the night: from 2011, "L'heure des loups" was exhibited in its entirety or in group exhibitions, notably at the MuCEM in Marseille (2016-2017, "Café Inn" exhibition).

In 2003, she developed a polysensory creation by asking great noses to create perfumes inspired by her photographs, in 2018, she had sounds created inspired by her photographs, giving birth to bi-sensory works.

At the same time, she began to develop purely conceptual work. "Plus ou moins l'infini" contrasts, in the form of abstract installations, pure air and toxic waste. These exhibitions took place in 2006 at the Grand Château in Nice, then at Sordes l'Abbaye in the Landes.

In 2013, Véronique Durruty's photographs escaped from their frames. She added gold to them, sewed them, embroidered them, painted them, transformed them into sculptures. This gave rise to an exhibition that would circulate in many galleries, "Icônes", which glorifies anonymous women. Since then, she has developed a work of "photo-drawings" (ink and pen on photographic prints), like a shaman visualizing the invisible. Véronique Durruty continues to work on the theme of women (2021, la vie en bleus, embroidered drawings; 2024, V, mended photographs).

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists