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Aurélie Choiral

French photographer

Born in 1978 France

Diploma of higher education  in Sociology/Anthropology and Photography at the Condé School in Lyon

(Promotion of Willy Ronis French photographer).

 

 

Subsequently, in 2002 Aurelie Choiral becomes an independent photographer. Her fields are industrial and institutional reports, architectural and events photographs.

When settled in Brussels, she adds portraits' photographs to her work. Deeply touched by the diversity of populations and their cultures, it's with great enthusiasm that in 2011 she collaborated with Michèle on this project to discover the every day life of the Chinese through their parks.

 

" This collaboration proved to be a most enriching experience. "

Michèle Koltz-Chedid

French artist, painter and photographer, instigator of the project

Born to an Egyptian family of Lebanese and Syrian origins.
 

Michèle Koltz-Chedid grows up in Paris in an intellectual and artistic environment and starts painting at the age of 28. Her work is inspired by the history of European art.

She borrows characters for her large compositions from her favorite painters (Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rubens, Velasquez, David, Ingres...) 

In 2001, for the first time she went to China  with her husband, curator, who settled exhibitions in Shanghai and Beijing. The discovery of China is to her an enormous cultural shock which determines not only her future work but also her choice of numerous activities (she studies Mandarin, pratices Taiji Quan...). She starts painting landscapes for the first time and dedicates several exhibitions to the famous "Huang Shan". She has two exhibits in Beijing with Chinese artists. Michèle's curiosity for and involvement in the many activities practiced by the Chinese people in their parks lead her to initiate a weekly course of Taiji Quan in one of Luxembourg's public gardens. She then returns to China with the young photographer Aurélie Choiral in order to photograph all those joyous demonstrations which are are witness to "an art of living and aging differently".

She turned back regularly to China (in 2015 it was her 15th time!).

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