Superfacial: Audrey Tautou's free photo exhibition at Quai de la Photo, on the Seine in Paris

This summer, Audrey Tautou steps behind the lens with Superfacial, a free photo exhibition to be discovered from June 5 to September 10, 2025 at Quai de la Photo, on the banks of the 13th arrondissement in Paris. In it, she unveils three photographic series, funny, modest and hard-hitting. A human-sized print, far from myth, close to reality.

This summer, from June 5 to September 10, 2025, the iconic Audrey Tautou steps out of the cinema and behind the lens for Superfacial, a free photo exhibition installed on the water (literally) at Quai de la Photo, the floating art center making waves on the banks of Paris's 13th arrondissement.

We know her to be luminous on screen, but now she's illuminating as a photographer. With Superfacial - named after her book published in 2024 - Audrey Tautou reveals an unexpected, almost unknown side. Some fifty photos unfold an intimate, funny, ironic and ultra-mastered visual narrative. Playing with her own image - and with clichés both literally and figuratively - she questions what it's like to be seen, followed, fantasized about, and sometimes forgotten behind a role.

In three photographic series, she frames her world and ours. The first? A gallery of staged, offbeatself-portraits, punctuated by personal texts, framed fan letters and extracts from her diary. We enter his world as if into a secret album, on the borderline between gentle confession and heartfelt satire. Everything is meticulous, never overplayed. She plays, yes, but this time with codes.

In the Behind the Scenes series, Audrey immortalizes those who, for twenty years, came to interview her. This collection of journalists' portraits is akin to , a low-angle view of the media machine: a click to remind us of these often rushed exchanges, and to restore the human touch to the promotional machinery.

Third stop: a more contemplative series ofanonymous people photographed from behind. No crossed eyes, no frozen expressions. Just people, captured in their naturalness, without the weight of face-to-face contact. "I don't like to disturb," she says. So she captures discreetly, like an inverted wink to all those who have scrutinized her for years.

And to take the film even further, the exhibition takes on the look of a fan's cabinet of curiosities: letters, gifts, oddities... displayed like relics. A tender, subtle staging between the real Audrey and the fantasized figure.

"Photography allows me to be the captain of my ship," she confides in a press release. And here, no blurring: she frames everything, chooses what we see, and redraws the contours of her legend with humor, modesty and bite. After being the heroine of the screens, she becomes the author of her own negatives.

At the crossroads of zoom and recoil, Superfacial shows us Audrey Tautou like never before: in full light... but always at the right distance from the shot!