Muriel Bordier

PROPOSAL REVIEW M BORDIER

Xin Art Galerie presents a focused selection of works by French artist Muriel Bordier, whose practice examines the individual’s place within collective systems and social conventions. Muriel Bordier conceives and stages each scene herself, directing the people who appear in her photographs and placing them within carefully constructed environments where order, repetition and apparent normality gradually give way to ambiguity and absurdity.

Moving between leisure, borders, religion and public space, she uses humour, scale and subtle disruption to question the structures that organise contemporary life. Her work combines photography, mise-en-scène and digital composition, creating images that oscillate between reality and fiction.

RESUME MURIEL BORDIER

MURIEL BORDIER — RESUME

Muriel Bordier

Born in Rennes, France, 1965 Lives and works in France

Education

1990 — DNSEP, École des Beaux-Arts de Reims, France

Selected Awards

2017 — Talent Contemporain, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, France
2015 — Prix Eurazeo
2010 — Prix Arcimboldo

Selected Collections

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris — Espaces muséaux series

Selected Public Commissions

2026 — Major public commission involving the photography of 300 participants for a monumental work
1% artistique commissions including Centre aquatique de Montfort and Centre culturel de Lannion

Selected Projects / Highlights

2016 — Les Thermes selected as the communication image for Fotofever Regular participation in artist residencies and corporate commissions

Artistic Practice

Muriel Bordier develops a photographic practice centred on humour, displacement and the observation of contemporary communities. She examines their codes and rituals, exaggerating familiar behaviours until they become absurd or comic. Human figures remain central to her work: she photographs her sitters in staged poses before digitally integrating them into environments she has entirely created, producing carefully constructed sociological micro-fictions between reality and fiction.