Sabine Meier

Sabine Meier was born in 1964. She lives and works in Le Havre, Normandy. Graduated of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris (ENSBA), she also holds a diploma in art history (aesthetics of photography) as well as visual arts. Her work entered in the search field of contemporary artistic creation, it is regularly exhibited in many institutions and galleries in France and abroad; it features in various private and public collections (FNAC: National Contemporary Arts Foundation- FRAC Haute-Normandie: Regional Contemporary Arts Foundation- Goethe Institut, Bordeaux- MuMa:Malraux Museum, Le Havre ...). She has undertaken several residencies in France, Germany, Finland and the United States (New York).

For years, Sabine Meier tried to capture the photographic process reality: How is an image constructed? What is demonstrated in the frame? At first, she works on the self-portrait. In the 7 metamorphoses series, she stages herself with her model in specific settings made of photographs on plastic covers. 

After her"Le Havre / New York" residency, she produced Portrait of a man (Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov); the series is inspired by the novel Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, freely transposed from Saint Petersburg to the United States and then to Le Havre.