Caroline Polikar

Caroline Polikar was born in 1976. She practiced photography as a self-taught artist for many years before training in silver gelatin printing at the Ateliers des Métiers d’Arts in Paris; she then enrolled at EFET, where she earned her BEP in Photography in June 2015. Since April 2019, she has been represented by Galerie Insula in Paris.

His work revolves around the concepts of Origin and Process, particularly in “ The Excavations "where she attempts to bring forth buried, visceral, primordial images, with the aim of trying to recover Memory."The media she uses—whether digital, film, video, or heliogravure—are intimately involved in the conception of her work. 

The Camera Obscura, Revelation, Alchemy, the very essence of photography—these are her sources of inspiration, along with her fascination with the language of dreams and the strangeness of vision. Her photographs are often taken with long exposures and in black & white, creating images on the border between dreams and buried memories, seeking to shed light on our mysterious  presence in the world and to capture the invisible.