2023-11-01 18:15:57
It’s sport
♦ Off-Games, photographers watch sport, as part of the Les festival Photaumnales from Beauvais, until December 31, 2023
The Photaumnales close the major summer events and kick off the start of the photographic season at the end of September. Current events oblige, between the Rugby World Cup and the big Olympic rally coming next year, from original and multiple angles, this 2023 edition is celebrating its 20 years of existence with dignity by devoting itself entirely to sport, a vast subject , often overused and little considered in the category of exhibition photos.
Wrestling, Boxing. / Tina Mérandon
Nearly 40 exhibitions adorn this rich route, in Beauvais, in small towns of Beauvaisis, Clermontois and spread even further, notably as far as Amiens, Berck or Noyon. With an impressive list of artists, including Xaviers Lambours, Tina Merandon, Gilles Leimdorfer, Hans Van der Meer and Céline Villegas.
A laboratory festival
♦ Contact Boards in Deauville, until January 7, 2024
Created in 2010, the Planches Contact festival in Deauville is now one of the anticipated events of the fall. This very successful fourteenth edition is placed under the sign of new romanticism.
On the beach, the large installation celebrates the joy of living, in an unexpected dialogue between a little-known color series by Robert Doisneau produced in 1960 in Palm Springs (California) and a black and white series by Malian Malick Sidibé taken on the edges of Niger and the brand new swimming pool in Bamako. Tasty confrontation between rich American retirees and Malian youth overflowing with energy.
Elina Brotherus,Planches Contact 2023
But Planches Contact are first and foremost residencies for established artists or emerging talents in Normandy. Inspired by the pretty Belle Époque villas like Omar Victor Diop, by the remains of drifting blockhouses like Thomas Joiron or the post-war architecture of Le Havre like Elina Brotherus. Tempted by capturing the wind and the rain like Jean François Spricigo, the essence of the waves like Benjamin Decoin or the color of the horizon like Julien Mignot.
At the Franciscan convent, it is the Australian Max Pam who is in the spotlight. Alongside his black and white photographic travel diaries taken in the four corners of the world, 70 previously unpublished color diptychs are presented, the fruit of his residence in Deauville. Dreamlike, poetic and political, the series combines writing, drawings, images and collages and testifies to the creative energy of the photographer born in 1949.
Reconciling art and science
♦ 1 + 2 Photography and SciencesIn Toulouse, until the end of November
The idea of Philippe Guionie, at the helm of this residency festival since 2015, is to forge links between photography and science. This year, in the role of recognized photographer, the Spaniard Almudena Romero reveals the artistic fascination that flowers exert on pollinators, a poetic approach validated by the scientists with whom she worked.
For his part, photographer Téo Becher accompanied environmental geographers. His images, outdoors and in the laboratory, challenge the hackneyed codes of scientific and artistic illustration of nature.
Apollo 17 magazine 147 A-NASA, Residence 1+2 Factory, 2023 / ©Philippe Guionie
Marion Ellena, for her part, worked with the CRCA laboratory (Animal Cognition Research Center) on the mechanisms of memory. Between altered smartphone images and photographs collected in flea markets, she composes with photographic material to better capture what tends towards memories or forgetting. We can also note the remarkable work of Jef Bonifacino, exhibited at the Cité de l’espace, who, based on photographic archives and images rejected from the Apollo missions, constructs a personal vision of the Moon.
In search of lost memories
♦ Flora, time of remembrance,Villa Tamaris at Seyne-sur-Mer, until January 7, 2024
In the enchanting setting of the Villa Tamaris, Flore unfolds through nearly two hundred works the thread of her lost and found memories, on the occasion of the first retrospective devoted to her. Going back in time to around thirty years of creation, to his very latest work Villas and Wondersthe fruit of his residency at Villa Tamaris in 2023, in his very first series Jardin secreta celebration in charcoal black and milky white of the fragile beauty of everyday life.
The smell of the night was that of jasmine, 2020 / Flora
Dated 1996, the year of the loss of her companion, this work marks a turning point in her life, from now on Flore will only devote herself to her photographic art with particular attention paid to the prints that she makes herself. Reappropriating the oldest techniques such as platinum palladium, cyanotype or heliogravure or more modern ones such as Polaroid, by intervening on prints with wax, gold or pigments, Flore’s work is also a sensual celebration of the medium.
His dark room is the theater of a reinvented memory. Flore leaves for Egypt to rediscover the light of her childhood, then to Morocco in the footsteps of road-trip of several months where his mother took him after his father left the family.
Then there will be the confrontation with the Rivesaltes internment camp where his Spanish maternal family, fleeing Francoism, was locked up. Her search for lost time takes her to Vietnam to find the Indochina of her grandparents where the ghost of Marguerite Duras wanders, whose words have always accompanied her. Poetic, this work tinged with nostalgia is an invitation to resist the brutality of the world.
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