The Nuu Festival: photographic poetry
Exhibiting contemporary photography in the streets, for a diverse audience, to engage with the urban population, and to remain visible to those who host artists and the public within their walls: this is the principle behind La Nuu festival, which took place in the town of Rubi in Catalonia. This year, 2021, the festival […]
ELSA & JOHANNA
Shortlisted for the Balzac Prize, revived this year to reward the most evocative photographic work of the Human Comedy of our time, they are presented in their first solo museum exhibition, "The Plural Life of Identity," at the Städtische Galerie in Karlsruhe until February, as well as in Paris at the Galerie La Forest Divonne until December 23 with a new […]
Nicolas Floc'h: invisible
Photographed in panoramic shots, with the timeless splendor of black and white, Nicolas Floc'h's underwater landscapes plunge us, at the edge of the visible and the invisible, into the silence of infinite spaces. Immersive and magnetic, these landscapes evoke the strange sensation of wandering and floating between two waters: that of the still-sunlit sea, […]
Contact sheets: a touch of Normandy
Deeply rooted in its local area, the Planches Contact photography festival in Deauville is structured around several key themes that reflect its international ambition: emerging talent, partnerships, and, above all, photographers in residence from France and beyond. The extensive exhibition offers a diverse range of perspectives, showcasing both contemporary photography and the Normandy landscape – a true showcase of diversity […]
The Large Drawing
Once confined to the intimacy of a sheet of paper or a sketchbook, contemporary drawing is spreading and unfolding on a large scale. A simple medium transformed into a work of art in its own right, it has changed format along with its status. Transcending its original framework and function, it is exploding and […]
Marina Abramović & Ulay: go back!
A goddess of performance art, Marina Abramović has continued to move and unsettle us with the same vigor and visual power for four decades. Her radical work, which began as a duo in the mid-1970s with her partner and collaborator Frank Uwe Laysiepen, known as Ulay, is now featured in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, […]
Duy Anh Nhan Duc: Fragile beauty
Following Lee Bae's sooty "contemporary cave" in 2015, Shouchiku Tanabe's monumental bamboo arbor in 2016, Min Jung-Yeon's enchanting birch forest in 2019, and Daniel Arsham's Zen garden last year, Duy Anh Nhan presents a celestial landscape of dandelion seeds, full of poetry and lightness […]
Kubra Khademi: The Political Poetics
She tells us stories, myths, and realities. Between painting and performance, her body is exposed. The Afghan artist Kubra Khademi has been drawing since childhood and performing since her studies in Kabul. The ochre bodies she draws resemble her. Stereotypical, "They are all myself, and they are all other, there is no […]