Solene Ballesta is a French multidisciplinary artist based in Tokyo.
She graduated from La Sorbonne University in Paris in Cinema and Contemporary
Art studies. She directs her work towards story telling, hybridating different medium
and genres, from documentary to fashion, portrait to performance. She won PICTO
Award for Young Fashion Photography in 2014, and exhibited at Louvre Museum
and Galliera Fashion Museum in Paris, then in several international art fairs.
She moved to Japan in 2019 to found her own studio, continuing her plastician
researches on conceptual photographs, videos, and installations.
Solene considers the artistic practice as moving and hybrid, like human emotions
always fluctuating. For her, polymorphic artistic practice allows her to create
ambiences and moods. How, through light and the space design, one can go on a
journey and create emotions. Solene constantly explores how to distort reality, taking
it to a magical and surreal dimension.
Her favorite subjects are eroticism and surrealism, the blurred boundaries of gender,
and cultural encounters. She uses mainly photography and video, but also
installation and space design, calligraphy and 3D.
She graduated from La Sorbonne University in Paris in Cinema and Contemporary
Art studies. She directs her work towards story telling, hybridating different medium
and genres, from documentary to fashion, portrait to performance. She won PICTO
Award for Young Fashion Photography in 2014, and exhibited at Louvre Museum
and Galliera Fashion Museum in Paris, then in several international art fairs.
She moved to Japan in 2019 to found her own studio, continuing her plastician
researches on conceptual photographs, videos, and installations.
Solene considers the artistic practice as moving and hybrid, like human emotions
always fluctuating. For her, polymorphic artistic practice allows her to create
ambiences and moods. How, through light and the space design, one can go on a
journey and create emotions. Solene constantly explores how to distort reality, taking
it to a magical and surreal dimension.
Her favorite subjects are eroticism and surrealism, the blurred boundaries of gender,
and cultural encounters. She uses mainly photography and video, but also
installation and space design, calligraphy and 3D.