BIOGRAPHY

Assaf Shoshan (born in 1973 in Jerusalem) is a photographer and video artist whose work explores a world where borders endlessly appear and disappear, a world where time is felt differently. His portraits and landscapes evoke an enigmatic atmosphere, imbued with mystery and a sense of the unreal. Between reality and fiction, Shoshan’s work carries a poetic and contemplative dimension, while also being deeply political. It delves into fundamental human themes: the search for identity, the feeling of exile, and the sense of belonging.

Shoshan was a resident at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici from 2013 to 2014. His work has been exhibited notably at the Villa Medici (2014); the Collection Lambert in the exhibition The Disappearance of Fireflies in Avignon (2014); at Paris Photo (2016) in the The Pencil of Culture exhibition by the Centre Pompidou; at the Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels (2018); at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels as part of a retrospective (2020); at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (2022); at the Centre Pompidou in the Body to Body exhibition (2023); and at the Musée de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in the exhibition Chaque vie est une histoire (2024/2025). His work has also been shown in various galleries and museums, including the MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome), the Negev Museum of Art (Be’er Sheva), the Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Musée de l’art sacré (Évry), and the Cité internationale des arts (Paris).

Shoshan’s works have been acquired by private collectors and public institutions across Europe, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, the National Contemporary Art Fund (FNAC), the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, the French Museum of Photography in Bièvres, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. His work has been published in Motsa (Éditions Le Pavé dans la Mare, 2006) and Territories of Waiting (Diaphane Editions, 2013).