Emilie Pitoiset
Emilie Pitoiset (b. 1980, France) is a French artist living and working in Paris. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2005. Her work has been best described by Marc Clément as bringing forth a set of “narrative constructions [that] oscillate between documentary practice and pure invention, [and] confront viewers with their own perceptive faculties and their necessary limitations, such as the obsessive desire to distinguish truth from illusion. In doing so, they create openings toward fiction that come into play at the very moment in which the viewers’ perception is hampered by doubt.” Pitoiset’s work has been shown in various institutions in France (Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, au Frac Champagne Ardenne, Musée Départemental d’art contemporain in Rochechouart, Frac Ile de France, Confort Moderne, Rencontres Photographiques in Arles, Domaine Pommery, Château de Rentilly) and in the rest of Europe(Casino, Forum d’art contemporain in Luxembourg, Klemm’s gallery in Berlin, Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden, Museum am Ostwalt in Dortmund, Pavement Gallery in Manchester, Attitudes in Geneva).