DELPHINE BALLEY: DEUX SERIES INEDITES, 2008 - 2009
Until November 21, 2009 at Galerie Réverbère in Lyon
I was born in Romans on May 7. I live and work in Lyon. After studying at the French National School of Photography in Arles, I moved back to Lyon in 1999, near my parents' house in Saint Laurent en Royans in the Drôme.
In 2002, I began to work on a series of photos in my mother's cupboards, in the family home... and exhibited the results for the first time at the "9bis" gallery in Saint Etienne. After a lengthy persuasion session over Sunday chicken and chips—and even though my parents were still sober—they agreed to pose for me without me needing to chop their heads off.
Armed with this crucial permit, I showed portraits of them in 2003 at the exhibition entitled Jeunisme (organised by the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne), then at the Centre of Photography in Lectoure, and finally at the De Visu gallery in Marseille. Everyone back home in Saint Laurent en Royans seemed pleased… so I continued with my photos, extending the family album to include the rest of the Balley family.
Being fond of stories, I also take part in La Collection Louche, a magazine that uses monographs to present "objects and their history, giving them a chance to enjoy a brief spell back in the limelight, to present and explain the person they incarnate…", extract from the back cover of Louche 3: Dossier Gaëtan Barthélémy, Nov. 2005, text by François Beaune.
© Delphine Balley
Courtesy Galerie Le Réverbère, Lyon
http://www.galerielereverbere.com/exposition.php
