Amélie Ravalec
France
Biography
Amélie Ravalec is a London-based Parisian film director and photographer, editor and colourist.
Her films have been released theatrically worldwide with over 1200 screenings in cinemas, festivals, museums and cultural institutions in 50 countries. Her work has been acquired by networks including ARTE, Sky Arts UK, and ORF Austria, and has received over thirty international awards. In 2025, she was invited by Italian luxury fashion house Bottega Veneta as the featured artist of the year for their Inclusion & Diversity Via Arts Initiative.
She is the author and book designer of Japan Art Revolution, published by Thames & Hudson (2025), launching at The Photographer’s Gallery, London.
Her photographic practice focuses on the body, ritual and transformation. Working closely with Butoh dancers and performers, she follows the body through states of tension, trance and unraveling, capturing gestures charged with shadow, instinct and emotional intensity.
She is the founder of Lone Gentlemen Publishing, an independent imprint publishing limited-edition art and photography books and prints, distributed internationally by Antenne Books and sold in museums and bookshops worldwide. She published over 10 photographic books and limited editions prints.
Project
“Invocations of Flesh” by Amélie Ravalec is a new photographic project the artist is presenting in her first solo show as a photographer, revealing a deeply sensory and corporeal exploration of the human body through imagery that evokes ritual, intensity and presence. While specific thematic materials are still emerging from exhibition documentation and announcements, the title itself suggests a work that engages with the materiality of flesh, embodiment and the visceral dimensions of being.
Ravalec, known for her engagement with avant-garde aesthetics and immersive cultural expressions, often blends photography with cinematic and performative sensibilities. Invocations of Flesh participates in this lineage by foregrounding the body as a site of invocation, memory and intensity, inviting viewers to confront how physicality and emotion intersect within contemporary photographic practice.