Émilie Jouvet

Émilie Jouvet might be only 29 years old, but she really knows how to capture women's intimacy in her photographies. Ambiguous, sensual, provocative, her models are far away from the frozen clichés of the standart female homosexual representations. Freaks and chic, her models travel between genders, assuming troubled and confusing identities. She crosses them in the underground queer parisian scene, and they give her their image, lips tightened on a cigarette, a bandage on the arch of the eyebrow, the pants lowered at the ankles, ripped fishnets…
She is telling us a moment in a very intimate world. She is showing the truth: tired looks, tensed bodies, the bathroom like it is and not like we would like it to be, the messy bed because no, we don't live in an Ikea store. The girls are wearing blue jeans because they are like that in her universe, and they are sublime that way. She does not drape them in silk to make them become flawless statues with no identity. They drink beer in bars and not champaign in a harem, they dance, they sweat, they smeel good dirty hair and today dreams.
Every single picture Emilie makes tells us about desire. Her eye will go beyond the façades to reveal sexy natures. Her look on queer communauty is shifted. She open our eyes by showing us andro girls , hot fems, very bad transboys, cutes babes, who love their bodies, and raise questions in our minds about the notions of masculinity and femininity, beauty, sexyness.
Nowadays, the human bodies are shown everywhere, but they are polished and perfect. Emilie is looking for the flaw, the intensity, the release that makes us human beings.

Biography

Photographer
Filmaker
Born in 1976
Situated in Paris

After studying at the Artschool, Emilie Jouvet went to the French National School of Photography. Photographer and filmaker, committed artist, she is working in Paris as a freelance photographer for severals magazines such as La Dixième Muse, Tetu , Del'air, Enville, Muteen.
Her personal and political work showing her friends and lovers in their intimacy, far away from the frozen clichés of the standart female homosexual representations. Her models, travel between genders, assuming troubled and confusing identities.
One of her pictures, inspired a collection of lesbian shortstories entitled "Immersion totale". She wrote the preface. Her shifted and provocative videos are shown in international LGBTQ festivals (Paris,Brussels, Berlin, San Francisco, Mexico..) and were screened recently on the TV channels Arte, Canal + and Pink TV. She also Co-foundator of the artistic association for the promoting of artists "Très Très Méchantes Filles" (" very very bad girls ") and organizes parties, to develops a queer and feminist artistic space . Actually she present her first feature film DIY "One Night Stand" a romantic queer porn, made by and for lesbians and transboys.

Contact :
emiliejouvet@hotmail.com
tel:06.20.60.20.04
websites:
www.20six.fr/onenightstand
www.20six.fr/emyphotografy
www.onenightstand-lefilm.com
Production :
www.hysterieprod.com
catherine@hysterieprod.com