Delphine Roche
Delphine Roche is a French journalist and visual artist.
Biography
Delphine Roche was born in Le Mans in 1977.
After studying art and literature at La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, she got a formal training as a professional studio photographer at Gobelins, l'école de l'image, in Paris.
In 2005, she started a career as a journalist in the French fashion press, writing as a freelance editor for various publications including Le Figaro and Numéro, of which she became features director in 2012. From fashion to sports through contemporary art, architecture and dance, she has published exclusive portraits of Haider Ackermann, Raf Simons, Rodarte, Russell Westbrook, Gregory van der Wiel, Marc Quinn, Giuseppe Penone, Rem Koolhaas, Benjamin Millepied, , among others.
In 2016, she engaged into performance art with her piece Why Do We Sweat – A Cough or a Baby Crying Will Not Ruin a Good Piece of Modern Music. Debuted at the Palais de Tokyo, the performance has since toured in galleries. Among its various participants are muay thai boxer Patrice Quarteron, artist Mathias Kiss, Parisian creative studio Golgotha, Opera National de Paris's dancers Julien Meyzindi, Yvon Demol, Pablo Legasa and Antonin Monié, basketball players Coleman Collins, Aloysius Anagonye and Sylvester Morgan, voguers Kevin Table and Axel Cérine.
Roche is also the author and creative director of original online videos. Tempest, starring Opera National de Paris's étoile dancer Germain Louvet, runs on Nowness. A new project, soon to be released, features French actor and Dior Homme's face Rod Paradot, to a soundtrack by Erick Arc Eliott, producer of famous Brooklyn hip hop band Flatbush Zombies.
Roche currently lives and works in Paris.
References
- "Why Do We Sweat?… la performance imaginée par Delphine Roche s'invite à la Galerie RX". Numéro. Published on April 24, 2017.
- "Tempest". Nowness. Published on June 5, 2017.
- "Hyères: The Finalists' Collections". Vogue.fr. Published in 2013.