Natalie Victor Retali

Coming from the world of dance, N_VR has followed several training courses related to photography (evening classes at the ENSP in Arles, internship in the photographic service of the Bordeaux museums, internships with renowned photographers during the Arles RIPs. .), his goal being to visually develop his way of understanding the world. From 2006 to 2009, N_VR took part in various group exhibitions (“Midnight twenty, tomorrow morning” Group A in Paris X) and personal (“Désapparences” in Paris, Bordeaux, Arles, Marseille and Toledo (Spain)) In 2010, residency artist with the Community of Communes of Pont du Gard (an exhibition: "Common Territory, Intimate Landscapes" and a participatory photography workshop: "Image of Self, Image of the Other" will be developed; an interactive catalog will be published on internet) From 2011 to 2015, she developed her workshops with the CCAS of Bordeaux and in training of elected officials, her personal exhibition “QUELQUE CHOSE rOUGE” is scheduled in Paris, Arles, Marseille 2013, Bordeaux and Rhodes (Greece).

She also works with publishers (cover photos), has managed a cultural magazine: "L'Ormée" to which she always brings her visual contribution, an article on her work appeared in the magazine "Art Absolument" in June 2015. Since 2016, the artist has participated in “Femmes en Mouvement”, an event supported by the City of Arles whose visual has been chosen from among her works for four years, she offers screenings, exhibitions, workshops “Image de Soi, Image de l'Autre ”and participates in group exhibitions. His photographic series: “Urban Ghost” will be exhibited for the first time in Arles as part of “Arts at Home” then in Calvisson, Valliguières (Gard) and Bègles. In 2017, she developed her personal and monumental project: “Ghost Project”, of which 5 paintings were acquired by a Colorado gallery and her “White Ghosts” were exhibited by the Depardieu gallery in Nice in May 2018.

It has projects with the cities of Bègles, Brest and Arles. The series “Urbaines Solitudes” and “Ice Blue” are already programmed by Galerie Depardieu, which now represents it. In the spring of 2018, she founded the “Tombé.es des nu.es” festival in Arles with “Dare feminism”, provided the visual and an exhibition of black and white male nudes reworked in ink on tracing paper. During the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, she participated in the collective exhibition of Arles Gallery "Make Love, not War" sponsored by Charlélie Couture and produced as part of Voies Off a solo exhibition on Arles "Arles est His ".

Ut Barley Sugar (Parisian artist and performer) says of her work: “N _ VR is an explorer of the thickness of the present, she crosses reality by barely removing the edges of the present. She reveals another dimension without staging, allowing herself to be surprised by the present moment, which, thanks to the precision of her instinct, triggers in us a vision of the truth. She composes her photos like paintings; the process of creation passes through an interstice of consciousness: feeling and seeing the image between the real and the dream shown. From this pre-awareness of the image, N _ VR composes series that plunge the viewer into a state of unconscious observation. "