"She photographs people playing their own role, in their own homes. In these very elaborate stagings we are often confronted with clichés, meaningful reflections of a social, economic or cultural situation in contemporary life but also certain values that raise questions about the limits of the private sphere"

This ambiguous and chaotic staging aims to subvert the viewer's unconscious. The act of taking a photograph is seen as a genuine performance that demands time: the meeting, the staging and the actual click of the shutter. The different worlds reconstructed here speak of the relationship between a form of dreamed life and a reality that yearns to escape the constraints of the humdrum and the mediocre. While unveiling the intimate aspect of credible but barely probable stories, Aurore Valade expresses her belief in the inevitable tyranny of life - a narrative that always coheres with her intentions."

Commentary by Chantal Grande, 2008 artistic advisor for the Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie

Individual exhibitions

2006
« Intériors avec figures » series, Prize at the Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Galerie l'Atelier sur l'herbe, Nantes, France
« Intériors avec figures » series, Fotografica Valencia 06, Institut Français Gallery, Valencia, Spain

2007 - 2008
« Intériors avec figures » Travelling exhibition in Lot-et-Garonne France
Monflanquin, Associate Pollen
Lacanau, Lacanau Cultural Association
Marmande, Museé Albert Marzelles
Tonneins, Centre Culturel Paul Dumail
Cuzhorn, Town Hall
Orthez, Image Imatge
Nerac, Galerie des Tanneries