Romane Iskaria is a French visual artist photographer who works and lives in Brussels BE.
In residency for 2022/2023 in Carrefour des Arts Foundation, Brussels, BE.
Actually Romane works as a commissioned photographer for The Skateroom
Romane it’s available for orders and collaborations.
romaneiskaria13@gmail.com
+330622129558
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Romane Iskaria is a French photographer and visual artist based in Brussels. Her approach to photography is both documentary and fictional. She works on long term photographic investigations, in order to bring to light the voices of forgotten people and tell their stories. Her artistic work is mainly based on the quest for origins in relation to a lost territory. Romane collects memories and evokes the imaginary through photography, video, text and sound to create installations of collective memory. Romane was born in La Ciotat, France in 1997. At the age of 18, she entered the School of Fine Arts of Marseille (ESADMM) from which she graduated in 2018 with a DNA with honors. Afterwards, she completed an international exchange program at the University of Laval's School of Visual Arts in Quebec City, Canada. She continues her studies in Master of Photography at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels, Belgium where she will graduate in 2022.
Her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in France and internationally : Art-Ark Gallery San José (USA), Festival Circulation Cent-Quatre Paris (FR), Gallery Grande Vitrine Arles (FR), Art-Brussel-off (BE), Washington D-C (USA), French Consulate Erevan Armenia, Hangar Art Photo Center Brussels (BE), Tick-Tack gallery Antwerp (BE). Her work has recently been published in Polka-Magazine, Fisheye, Art Viewer, Scandale Project. Romane was selected for the Polka Magazine & Kickstarter call for projects for the creation and support of an artist's book for Assyrians, which is also a winner of the Belgian Photo Books selection that was shown at Rencontres d'Arles in France in July 2022.
In residency for 2022/2023 in Carrefour des Arts Foundation, Brussels, BE.
Actually Romane works as a commissioned photographer for The Skateroom
Romane it’s available for orders and collaborations.
romaneiskaria13@gmail.com
+330622129558
︎ Portfolio view & download
Romane Iskaria is a French photographer and visual artist based in Brussels. Her approach to photography is both documentary and fictional. She works on long term photographic investigations, in order to bring to light the voices of forgotten people and tell their stories. Her artistic work is mainly based on the quest for origins in relation to a lost territory. Romane collects memories and evokes the imaginary through photography, video, text and sound to create installations of collective memory. Romane was born in La Ciotat, France in 1997. At the age of 18, she entered the School of Fine Arts of Marseille (ESADMM) from which she graduated in 2018 with a DNA with honors. Afterwards, she completed an international exchange program at the University of Laval's School of Visual Arts in Quebec City, Canada. She continues her studies in Master of Photography at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels, Belgium where she will graduate in 2022.
Her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in France and internationally : Art-Ark Gallery San José (USA), Festival Circulation Cent-Quatre Paris (FR), Gallery Grande Vitrine Arles (FR), Art-Brussel-off (BE), Washington D-C (USA), French Consulate Erevan Armenia, Hangar Art Photo Center Brussels (BE), Tick-Tack gallery Antwerp (BE). Her work has recently been published in Polka-Magazine, Fisheye, Art Viewer, Scandale Project. Romane was selected for the Polka Magazine & Kickstarter call for projects for the creation and support of an artist's book for Assyrians, which is also a winner of the Belgian Photo Books selection that was shown at Rencontres d'Arles in France in July 2022.
Portrait by artist Julie Pollet
EDUCATION
2022 MFA in Photography, ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, BE. Professors : Hervé Charles, David de Beyter, Lola Meotti.
2020 BA in Photography, ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, BE.
2019 Erasmus University U-Laval Arts visuels, Québec, CA.
2018 DNA National Diploma of Plastic Art, with congratulations of the juries, INSEAMM (Marseille National School of Fine Arts), Marseille, FR.
Professors : Max Armengaud and Jean-Louis Garnell.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Festival Circulation(s), Outside the walls in front of the French Embassy in Armenia, 2022 Erevan, Armenia.
Santa Rita, Brésil, Le Mouguy, 2019, Marseille (FR).
Santa Rita, Brésil, Mini Mécénat Le Trait d’Union, (2019) Marseille FR.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Beyond, Fondation Carrefour des Arts, End of the residency, 2023, Brussels (BE).
Akitu, Gallery ART-ARK, Diaspora In Bloom, 2023, San José (USA).
Art Au Centre, 2023, Liège (BE).
Prix Médiatine : 40 years, Center Wolubilis, 2023, Brussels (BE).
BPS22 Museum : Frictions, 2022, Charleroi (BE).
Assyrian Film in diaspora, Assyrian Policy Institute, Pop-Up with Diaspora in Bloom, 2022, Washington D.C (USA).
Familie Foto’s, La Nombreuse, 2022, Brussels (BE).
Un grand amour suffit, Art Brussels Off, Gallery FACE-B, curator Open-Art Today and Valentine Himpsens David Brussels (BE).
Circulation(s) Festival, Artist Selection CENT-QUATRE, 2022, Paris (FR).
Tell Me Louder, curator Marion Adrian and Peter Vermeulen, 2022, HISK Brussels (BE).
Gallery La Grande Vitrine : Léa, Henry, Chris et les autres Festival, 2022, Arles (FR).
Traces Migratoire, Asmae association, TriPostal, 2021, Brussels (BE).
Noordelisht Internationaal Fotofestival : The Makeable Mind, 2021, Groningen (NE).
Hangar Art Photo Center : S’exposer, 2021, Brussels (BE).
Gallery TICK-TACK : Third Place Or What?, 2021, Anvers (BE).
Gallery HLM Photography Center : At-Work, 2018, Marseille (FR).
AWARDS / GRANTS
Grant SOFAM (Multimedia Society of Visual Arts Authors), 2023 (BE).
Médiatine Prize Laureate. And selected by La TAMAT Tournai (Museum of textile arts and tapestry), 2023 (BE).
Belgium Photobook Award, Assyrians book laureat, 2022 (BE).
Polka Magazine & Kickstarter call for projetcs
Laureate of the Polka Magazine & Kickstarter call for projects : creation and support of an artist's, Assyrians book laureat, 2021 (FR).
Grant Fondation Roi Baudouin, 2021 (BE).
Finaliste Mentor Prize Freelens, session de Paris pour Assyrians, 2021 (FR).
Poznan Art Prize 2nde prize for the series Les Confins, 2020 (PL).
PACA Crous student photo competition 2nd prize, for the series Manifestants, 2019 (FR).
ART RESIDENCIES
2022 - 2023 Résidence de recherche artistique Fondation Carrefour des Arts pour l’année 2022-2023, Brussels (BE).
BOOKS
2022 Assyrians, self published, design and conception Camille Carbonaro (MacaroniBook).
PRESS
Radio BX1 - Interview Le Brunch Romane Iskaria with Marion Maréchal - Les artistes de chez nous - Avril 2023.
9 lives magazine - Assyrians, mémoire d’un génocide par Romane Iskaria - FR - Novembre 2022.
Réponses Photos - Réponses livres - Assyrians - FR - Octobre 2022.
L’intervalle Blog - Fabien Ribery critique - Assyrie le chant de l’exil - FR - Juillet 2022.
Ectomie Patriarcale - Xeno Exhibitions - Bruxelles - BE - Juin 2022.
Art Visions - Festival Circulation - Festival Circulation(s) - Catalogue - FR - Mai 2022.
Assyria TV - Interview avec la Fédération Assyrienne de France pour le lancement du crowdfunding du livre Assyrians - Novembre 2021.
Polka Magazine - Editez votre premier livre photo ! Les lauréats de l’appel à projets Kickstarter x Polka - FR - Septembre 2021
Photophiles - Photographes du mois - FR - Septembre 2021.
Scandale Project - Third place or what? galerie TICK-TACK - Anvers BE - Avril 2021.
Art Viewer - Third place or what? galerie TICK-TACK - Anvers BE - Mai 2021.
Fisheye le mag - Coup de coeur pour Sceneggiatta - FR - Mai 2020.
Brownie Photo - Chronique d’un printemps pour Les Confins - BE - Avril 2020.
La Zone - Revue numéro 3 - Utopies-Distopies - pour 9m2 - Marseille FR - Février 2020.
Exhibition view, Assyrians, Hangar Art Photo Center, Brussels, BE, june 2021.
Exhibition view, Le pays disparu, Tick-Tack gallery, Antwerp, BE, april 2021.