Constance Debré

Constance Debré was in residence at LUMA Arles from october 2020 to january 2021.

Constance Debré was born in Paris, France in 1972. She studied at the Lycée Henri-IV and was a criminal lawyer until 2018. She has published two novels: Play Boy (Stock, 2018), and Love Me Tender (Flammarion, 2020). Her books are published by Flammarion in France and by Semiotext(e) in the USA, a publishing house co-directed by Chris Kraus and Hedi El Kholti. As part of her residency at Luma Arles, Constance Debré is working on her next opus. “The work begun in my previous books, which I intend to continue in this way, explores the possibility (?) of being oneself.” It raises the question of the construction of an identity shaped by a double movement, the horizontal movement of narration, as well as the vertical movement of the emancipation of the subject (the narrator) from social, sexual and family identities. Construction, deconstruction, as it were.