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How this photographer shakes up all the codes of the body and fashion at the MEP

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©Camille Vivier

From June 10 to September 13, 2026, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) is making a big splash by rolling out the red carpet for Camille Vivier. In her very first retrospective, the Parisian artist takes us into a magnetic and mysterious world where the female body joyfully breaks all the rules.

There are exhibitions that leave you with sparkles in your eyes, and others that turn your brain upside down in the gentlest way. This is precisely the bet of Camille Vivier, a key figure in contemporary photography, who is taking over the spaces of the Marais all summer long. With nearly one hundred works gathered, this journey traces twenty-five years of a captivating career, spent dancing between sharp fashion editorial and the purest underground art.

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An aesthetic that mixes pop culture and underground nudes 

What immediately strikes you when you enter Camille Vivier's world is this brilliant blend of genres. A former assistant for the legendary Purple Magazine, the photographer has created visuals for the biggest fashion houses (Margiela, Dior, Hermès…) while simultaneously building a highly personal and enigmatic world.

Here, references collide with wild freedom: the classics of Fine Arts pay homage to comic books, while the imagery of the first Hollywood icons hangs out with the biomechanical backgrounds of Hans Ruedi Giger (the dad of Alien). It's beautiful, sometimes dark, and above all, it's filled with wild poetry that questions the boundary between the living and the inanimate.


Bodies Beyond Norms and Powerful Women

Don't expect smooth and flat portraits. Camille Vivier's passion is the body. More specifically, the female nude, which she reinvents far from usual standards. The artist explores the plurality of femininities by photographing muscular, sculpted, and extraordinary bodies.

The exhibition is aimed at a discerning audience. Between tense erotism, dramatic chiaroscuro, and anthropomorphic statues, each image challenges our certainties and celebrates a textured, almost tangible raw power.

In her stage setups, the flesh interacts with unusual objects, like votive candles, modernist puppets, or monumental sculptures. You walk away with one certainty: that you have witnessed one of the most vibrant artistic proposals of the moment.


Camille Vivier — La MEP 
5,7, rue de Fourcy — Paris 4
From June 10 to September 13, 2026
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