Project Room PAC – Milan
MARCH 28, 2025 – JUNE 8, 2025
The PAC Project Room presents the first Italian solo exhibition of the artist Celine Croze (Casablanca, Morocco, 1982).
SQEVNV, an acronym for «Siempre que estemos vivos nos veremos» – «As long as we are alive, we will see each other» – is a journey to the end of the night. It is a very intimate story in which love and violence, Eros and Thanatos dominate every scene and tell the inner malaise of the artist, who recognizes the codes of life beyond limits as her own. Her need to tell (herself) is reflected in the darkest and most violent side of Latin America, where the darkness is darker and the light is more dazzling. Her photographs have the colors of the night. Dreamlike atmospheres. Perhaps nightmarish. She uses powerful symbols and archetypes, which speak to us of life and death, without compromise and without masks.
Celine Croze, SQEVNV, Yair, 2015. Courtesy the artist
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Celine Croze (Casablanca, 1982), born in Morocco and living in Paris, has a background in cinema. She is represented by the Sitdown gallery in Paris.
Her work has been presented at the International Meetings of Photography in Fez, at the Billboard Festival in Casablanca and Istanbul, at the Marrakech and Paraguay Biennials.
At the Kassel Festival, at the Mudima Foundation in Milan, at the Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation for the Rencontres de Arles 2023, at Paris Photo and currently at the Focale Gallery in Switzerland (2024).
In 2019 she won the In Cadaquez festival and the revelation award at the Face à la mer festival and the Map Festival with the series “SQEVNV”.
In 2020 she won the Mentor award for her upcoming project “Mala Madre”.
In 2021, she was a finalist for the HSBC Prize with “SQEVNV”.
Selected for the Springboard of young talents at the Planches Contact festival in Deauville, her series “Silence insolent” won the 2021 Audience Award.
In 2022, her book “Siempre Que”, published by Lamaindonne, won the Prix Nadar.
In 2023, her photographic film “Mala Madre” won the first prize at the Lanuu Screen Festival and the Audience Award at the Nuits Photos in Paris.
