CATHERINE MILLET

Promoted to Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2016, Catherine Millet is an art critic, writer, and founder of the magazine Artpress.

The carte blanche given to Catherine Millet celebrates the image in all its forms: memorial images, painting, photography, perception, cinema. This diversity highlights the interconnectedness of these various mediums through a wide array of both rare and exceptional books. Notably, this includes The Last Studies by Balthus (ed. Steidl Verlag), a box set comprising two books that present a significant body of Balthus's photographic work.

Through her selection, Catherine Millet tells numerous stories spread across several themes (the great classics, biography, history, women, the unclassifiable, theory, hell) with guiding threads being the relationship to the body, particularly women's bodies (La Monnaie vivante, Pierre Klossowski and Pierre Zucca, ed. Eric Losfeld), and the need to document intimate (Conversion, Pascal Convert, ed. Filigranes) or historical events (Images malgré tout, Georges Didi-Huberman, éditions de Minuit).

For her new autobiographical work dedicated to contemporary art, Les Commencements, a signing session was organized at the Bigaignon Gallery on January 28, 2023.