Lens-based visual artist, raised in Brussels and living in Rome.

After studies in iconology, gender studies and physical theater, I started experimenting with photography. In 2013, I came across an old enlarger and immediately had the urge to learn how to use it. And to start expressing myself through pictures.

In 2015, I won a scholarship to study at the Centro Romano di Fotografia. In 2017, I became the assistant at Door, while continuing my training there.

My first exhibition, Poussière d’étoile, presented in September 2018, tells about heroin addiction through cyanotype prints and a live performance.

My second exhibition, Naive Melody, presented in December 2018, explores the relationship between memories and accumulated materials.

My research is mainly based on my personal experiences and on what I see and hear and feel everyday. I explore the links between performance and image and the materiality of image. I like to deepen the relationships between texts and pictures, between movement and still images, between photography and history. I constantly look for the invisible surrounding us, the small things we forget to look at, the grasses growing in concrete cracks, blurring the boundaries between categories.

I like to build cameras and handle papers and brushes in the darkroom, I like to draw coastlines with the developer chemical and to cut and paste analogue prints to create new meanings.

Photography is my greatest passion. With lots of other things.

Contact me for collaborations and prints.

juliette.wayenberg@gmail.com