Biographie

Deborah Colloc is born in Lyon in 1981, where she lives and works. She studied at BLOO, school of photography and image and she practices photography since 2019 after an education in modern letters and cultural mediation. She also plays music in several bands within the punk rock alternative’s scene.

Her work talks about sociological questions using a bleak and romantic language, and makes way for « worrying strangeness ». She is interested in family’s themes, loss, metamorphosis, loneliness or even mystery who shows up in the everyday life.

Using an oniric black and white, her work called Les Garantes talks about family’s transmission specifically betwen women. Fed by lectures like Annie Ernaux and especially Mémoire de fille, Une femme, Emily Brontë, Les Hauts de Hurlevent, or even Daphné du Maurier, Rebecca, she appreciates gaps and shifts between mental space and reality. She also explores cinema through the same lens with the works of Ingmar Bergman, Persona, Cris et Chuchotements, Céline Sciamma, Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, or even Harry Kümel, Les Lèvres rouges.
She deals with the same themes with her serie Ministry of loneliness, who questions urban loneliness in Japan.

In 2022 she attended a workshop in Arles with Antoine d’Agata which was a trigger for her practice and then in 2023 she attended, for a year, the Milk’s Masterclasses of Sabrina Biancuzzi and Ljubisa Danilovic. In 2024, she signed up for Marine Lanier’s mentorship in order to improve her artistic process.
In 2019, she did an exhibition with the serie called Seul au milieu des autres in la Luttine in Lyon and self edited a picture book of this serie.
She also participated to the collective exhibition AUTRES MONDES, who took place in Bloo Galerie, in Lyon, in 2021 with the serie La Part du rêve.