Marie-Françoise Plissart Explained

Marie-Françoise Plissart
Birth Place:	Brussels, Belgium
Occupation:	Photographer, video artist

Marie-Françoise Plissart (born 1954) is a Belgian photographer and video artist.^[1]

Career

Plissart explored the photo novel format, collaborating with the comic artist Benoît Peeters in several projects.^{[2] [3]}

Plissart is also known as an architecture photographer. She won a Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture for the exhibition "Kinshasa:The Imaginary City".^[4]

Books

• Fugues (with Benoît Peeters), éditions de Minuit, 1983
• Droit de regards (after a lecture by Jacques Derrida), éditions de Minuit, 1985; nouvelle édition: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2010. (English edition: Rights of Inspection:Monacelli Press,)
• Prague (en collaboration avec Benoît Peeters), Autrement, 1985
• Le mauvais œil (in collaboration with Benoît Peeters), éditions de Minuit, 1986
• Aujourd'hui, éditions Arboris, 1993
• Bruxelles, horizon vertical, éditions Prisme, 1998
• Kinshasa, récits de la ville invisible, éditions La Renaissance du Livre/Luc Pire, 2005.
• Mons (in collaboration with Caroline Lamarche, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2009.

Exhibitions

Individual

• Droit de regards: Vienna (Musée d'Art Moderne, December 1985), Toulouse (Ombres blanches, March 1986), Berlin (Litteraturhaus, October 1986), the Hague(Centre culturel français, January 1987), Amsterdam (Maison Descartes, March 1987)
• À la recherche du roman-photo: Bruxelles (Palais des Beaux-Arts, June–July 1987), Rotterdam (galerie Perspektief, September 1987), Liège (les Chiroux, January 1989), Geneva (Saint-Gervais, November 1989)
• Aujourd’hui, Charleroi: Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, Octobre 1993)
• Bruxelles brûle-t-il?: Brussels (Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Beursschouwburg, May 1994)
• Martini, Martini, Bxl, Beursschouwburg: Brussels (KunstenfestivaldesArts, May 1996)
• Photo narrative: Eastern Michigan University (Art department, November 1996)
• Brussel’s architecture: Osaka (International House, October 1997)
• Bruxelles, Horizon vertical: Bruxelles (Le Botanique, January 1999)
• Kinshasa, the imaginary city: Venice (Biennale of Architecture, September 2004), Brussels (Bozar, June–September 2005), Johannesburg (June 2006)
• A World without end, rétrospective personnelle, Musée de la photographie d'Anvers (2008).

Notes and References

1. News: La Bruxelles de M. F. Plissart. Libre.be. La. 24 November 2017. fr.
2. Book: Intermediality and Storytelling. Grishakova. Marina. Ryan. Marie-Laure. 2010. Walter de Gruyter. 9783110237733. en.
3. Book: The Routledge Companion to Comics. Bramlett. Frank. Cook. Roy. Meskin. Aaron. 5 August 2016. Routledge. 9781317915386. en.
4. Web site: Kinshasa - Tales of the invisible city. 21 May 2021. VAi. nl.