2021
Murs
Area-store-paris.com - Paris, France
Individual Exposition, from from 17/03/2021
« Ces murs disent des histoires tristes. Un passé glorieux, industriel, impérial parfois, religieux ; ils sont abandonnés des hommes, des ouvriers, des prêtres ; ils sont en fuite et tentent de disparaître. Mais comment ? La pierre, le béton, la brique résistent. Les intempéries agissent en douceur, prennent leur temps et opèrent pour un travail de sape. Ces photographies sont l'hommage que je leur fais. Le geste, certes, peut sembler dérisoire. Mais la tentative, avant qu'ils ne s'écroulent, de leur rendre un peu de leur panache, ne saurait être vaine. »
Sophie Bassouls, mai 2012
2019
Les Soeurs de la Perpétuelle Indulgence
Marie du 1er arrondissement - Paris, France
Individual Exposition, from 25/11/2019 to 29/11/2019
2016
Chinois de Paris
Mairie du 10e arrondissement - Paris, France
Individual Exposition, from 06/07/2016 to 27/08/2016
2015
Désirs d'ici, amours de Chine
Galerie Area - Paris, France
Group Exposition, from 16/01/2015 to 21/01/2015
2013
Chez Les Libraires Associés
Les écrivains de Sophie Bassouls
Chez Les Libraires Associés - Paris 18ème, France
Individual Exposition, from 16/05/2013 to 13/07/2013
(Portraits, 1967-1997).
From the 16th of May till the 13th of July 2013.
Opening the 15th of May from 6:30 pm.
2012
Couples d'artistes
Le couple réinventé
Mairie du 10° - Paris, France
Group Exposition, from 04/11/2012 to 15/12/2012
Artist couples. Isn'’t the couple above all a mathematical concept? Something established from the association of two identical, or nearly identical, elements. Love story or not, the couple is the story of the equation 2=1, or 1+1=1, an equation that gives birth to something new—often life—or, in the case of art, emotion. This exhibition, presented by Area within the 10th district city hall of Paris, does not dwell on the question of photographic representations of couples, but focuses instead on the driving force behind this connection: an attraction, a magnetic pull…...
Emmanuel Carrère, 1993
Des visages et des mots
Médiathèque des Chartreux - Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Individual Exposition, from 06/03/2012 to 01/04/2012
On the occasion of French Language Week, the Mediatheque des Chartreux in Issy-les-Molineaux presents the exhibition “Words and Faces” by photographer Sophie Bassouls, who has taken portraits of more than 3,000 authors in her career, bearing witness to the richness of literary life in the last decades.
2009
Acter l'art, Act up 20 ans
Université Paris Diderot - Paris, France
Group Exposition, from 30/11/2009 to 15/12/2009
The evening of November 30th 2009, Act Up Paris, in partnership with Diderot University Paris, will take over the exhibition hall of the Grands Moulins building with its exhibition ACTIVE ART, whose chief ambition is to display different artists’ reactions to the AIDS crisis.
Paris/Istanbul
NC - Ankara, Turquie
Individual Exposition, 2009
In 2005, a French photographer discovers Istanbul. Each year afterwards, she returns and takes photos of her walks around the city and the Bosporus straits. Enchanted by the city, she finds her imagination permeated with impressions she has gathered.
Paris/Istanbul
NC - Izmir, Turquie
Individual Exposition, 2009
Paris/Istanbul
MKM Sanat Galerisi - Istanbul, Turquie
Individual Exposition, 2009
2008
Nus et or
Galerie Espace des femmes - Paris, France
Individual Exposition, from 06/11/2008 to 08/01/2009
“Nudes and Gold” by Sophie Bassouls. 21 prints, paint on gold (65x85) accompanied by seven poems by Alina Reyes (from November 6th to January 8th, 2009), Espace-Galerie des Femmes, 35 rue Jacob, 75006 Paris
Giallo di Napoli
Castel dell'Ovo - Naples, Italie
Individual Exposition, 2008
"When Naples manages to calm its anxieties, chase away its fears, soothe its clamor and cries, She dreams of immense silent spaces, sand, a gate opened towards Africa. She invents Giallo di Napoli, all sweetness, She believes herself to be innocent, She awaits rest… but will it come?"
Sophie Bassouls
2007
Antjie Krog, 2005
Writers: South Africa
Alliance Française - Cape Town, France
Individual Exposition, 2007
Odidi! Productions, Maison de Panel, Sophie Bassouls
In association with Cape Film Commission
&
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DU CAP
Presents
2006
Françoise Mallet-Joris, 1999
Comment lisent les Goncourt ?
Festival littéraire de Savennière - Savennières, France
Individual Exposition, 2006
2005
Sous les arbres, à l'ombre du boulevard
Galerie La Réserve - Paris, France
Individual Exposition, 2005
Preview of artist’s book: “Beneath the trees, in the shadow of the boulevard” –Sophie Bassouls / Benjamin Lévesque, Eudes Panel – and exhibition of original photos taken by Sophie Bassouls during the creation of the book. For this occasion, Sophie Bassouls, will set up her first “Free Access Photo Studio”.
2004
Daniel Boulanger, 1978
Noms de plume
The French Institute Dublin Dublin - Dublin, Irlande
Individual Exposition, 2004
American Writers
Festival America Vincennes - Vincennes, France
Individual Exposition, 2004
2003
Écrivains hors textes, 666 photos
Grand théâtre d'Angers - Angers, France
Individual Exposition, 2003
"Writers beyond their texts", 666 photographs by Sophie Bassouls.
"I would like to imbue these photographs with something that might resemble the pleasure of riding."
Alberto Moravia, 1983
Visages d'écrivains européens
NC - Nice, France
Individual Exposition, 2003
2002
Naguib Mahfouz, 2002
Écrivains d'Egypte et de France
Institut français Le Caire - Le Caire, Égypte
Individual Exposition, 2002
From Paul Fournel (see also the San Francisco Expo April 2000)
"At the end of January 2002, we started in Egypt again. ‘Always starts a winning formula’, that’s one of the rules of cultural movements".
Gunter Grass, 1995
Écrivains allemands et français
Institut français Mayence - Mayence, Allemagne
Individual Exposition, 2002
2001
Écrivains hors textes, 666 photos
Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris - Paris, France
Individual Exposition, 2001
Écrivains
Librairie Privat - Toulouse, France
Individual Exposition, 2001
Sob Influência, Bibliografia escritores
Biblioteca municipal Almeida Garrett - Porto, Portugal
Individual Exposition, 2001
2000
Paul Auster, 1980
American Writers in Paris
French Institute - Alliance Française - San Fransisco, États-unis
Individual Exposition, 2000
By Paul Fournel. "In April 2000, Sophie Bassouls came to San Francisco. At the time I was directing the French Institute, a charming place on Bush Street with a multimedia library whose collection had just been refurbished (by volunteers, rest assured).)"
William Burroughs, 1974
American Writers in Paris
Goldwasser Rare Books - New York, États-unis
Individual Exposition, 2000
1996
Les Mannequins
Institut français - Naples, Italie
Individual Exposition, 1996
"Sophie Bassouls went from window to window – often at night – on fashionable streets in hip areas to photograph wax mannequins. The idea itself is beautiful."
Vanités
Institut français - Naples, Italie
Group Exposition, 1996
Putting your own body on display, do you consider this an act of vanity?
"It’s an act of serenity. If you don’t have a problem with displaying yourself, if you show yourself, it means you have nothing to hide, there’s nothing reprehensible about that."
Tinto Brass
Doris Lessing, 1992
Écrivains
Fnac Les Halles - Paris, France
Individual Exposition, 1996
1995
Italo Calvino, 1974
Le Tour du monde en 80 écrivains
NC - Naples, Italie
Individual Exposition, 1995
James Baldwin, 1972
Le Tour du monde en 80 écrivains
NC - Bari, Italie
Individual Exposition, 1995
Hugo Pratt, 1981
Le Tour du monde en 80 écrivains
NC - Bologne, Italie
Individual Exposition, 1995
1990
Sollers
Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris - Paris, France
Individual Exposition, 1990
« Is it me? Or not really me? What does it matter? An interesting photo is the mark that distinguishes, thanks to who’s guiding the lens, between one self and another. A novel, a sculpture taken in an instant, recalling a dramatic moment. We see this character who shares my name, by turns relaxed, despondent, old, young, concerned, dreaming, calm, tired, leaving, returning, laughing, showing off, a little present and a little absent… »
1987
Marguerite Yourcenar, 1979
Les Écrivains
Galerie de photographie du hall du livre - Nancy, France
Individual Exposition, 1987
Les Écrivains
Palexpo, 1er salon du livre - Genève, Suisse
Individual Exposition, 1987
1983
René Barjavel, 1969
Les Écrivains
Salon du livre - Paris, France
Individual Exposition, 1983