Originally from France, Anne-Claire Vimal du Monteil holds a master's degree in Cinematography and a degree in Art History. She worked in culture and cinema in Paris from 1998 to 2005 and then chose to become a commercial photographer and high-end retoucher. In 2009, she moved to Montréal and in 2016, she transitioned to an artistic photography practice. Since 2021, she also works in VFX industry for cinema and TV. Anne-Claire Vimal du Monteil received prices and honorable mentions in many international photography contests. She exhibited her work in Montréal, Londres, Rome and Séoul. She is showcased by Grizzly Montreal.
Statement :
Her artistic work has two main components : psychological portraits and plastic
experimentation.
Her portraits take root in psychological and philosophical themes linked to the quest for the self. They take the form of dreamlike, poetic and symbolic pictures. The
difficult search and discovery of identity is one of the recurring topics of her work.
Her research is also often inspired by the status of women.
Her plastic experimentation pictures explore the transformation of reality in the
pictorialist or impressionist lineage of photography. Feeling and emotion take
precedence over the precise representation of the subject. Reality is distorted and
blurred through all kind of real-life filters such as fabric, water, see-through
materials.