Aurelia Faudot
France
Aurélia Faudot is a French artist-photographer with roots in Belle-Île-en-Mer and Marseille. She tells human, intimate, seemingly ordinary stories, and reveals what they contain that is extraordinary and universal. Through playful and participatory staging, she gives a sensitive and vivid form to the memories entrusted to her or those she studies. The dual plane of her images situates and contextualizes: it reveals the importance of the territory and the era in which her subjects are rooted.
A graduate of San José State University in California, she began her career in San Francisco before becoming Art Director of Photography at Voyage Privé. Since 2024, she has devoted herself fully to her artistic practice, centred on narratives blending fiction, memory and territory, with a particular attention to rural spaces and their dynamics.
Project
What Seasons Our Days (Le Sel des Jours) is a series made in 2025 in French Brittany, on the Rhuys Peninsula and on the island of Belle-Île-en-Mer. I travelled through these territories to ask their inhabitants, from elders to children, a single question: what memory do you keep around the table? Out of this collection grew a mosaic of stories, reinterpreted as staged tableaux in a style at once documentary and pictorial. A work on transmission, collective memory, and the evolution of eating practices from the post-war years to today, rooted in the uncertain zone between what was lived and what is remembered.
Statement
I tell human, intimate, seemingly ordinary stories, and reveal what they hold that is extraordinary and universal. Through playful and participatory staging, I give a sensitive and living form to the memories entrusted to me or that I study. I build my narratives through abundant, embodied tableaux that seek to reveal a substance that reportage could only skim. The dual plane of my images situates and contextualizes: it reveals the importance of the territory and the era in which my subjects are rooted. In doing so, this scenographed duality invites escape, then reflection on what makes us human and connects us.