The world's most celebrated and anticipated photography festival is back until September 26, 2021 with an edition that tries to reach a polyphony of stories through
With the newly inaugurated Luma Foundation and its collection, the beautiful Laura Owens & Vincent van Gogh exhibit at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh, the Provençal charme of the town, the beautiful and its breathtaking location, Les Rencontres d'Arles 2021 is not to be missed by visual art lovers.
Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Untitled, 1985. Courtesy of Autograph, London
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MASCULINITIES
LIBERATION THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY
Through the medium of film and photography, this major exhibition considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. Examining depictions of masculinity from behind the lens, the exhibition brings together the work of over 50 international artists, photographers and filmmakers.
Dana Scruggs, Nyadhour, Elevated, Vallée de la Mort, Californie, 2019
THE NEW BLACK VANGUARD
PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN ART AND FASHION
The New Black Vanguard presents artists whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images fuse the genres of art and fashion photography in ways that break down long-established boundaries. Their work has been widely consumed in traditional lifestyle magazines, ad campaigns, and museums, as well as on their individual social-media channels, reinfusing the contemporary visual vocabulary around beauty and the body with new vitality and substance.
Liliana Maresca, Sans titre. Liliana Maresca et son travail, 1983
RETHINK EVERYTHING
THE POWER OF ART IN TIMES OF ISOLATION
Here and now, we are traversing an unrepresentable pandemic time. Strange times, testing the very concept of humanity. We can rethink everything. Feminism is a rhizomatic theory and practice that also addresses questions of the post-human and production of the common.
Farah Al Qasimi, S et A au téléphone, série Mirage de la vie, 2020. Avec l’aimable autorisation de Third Line, Dubaï, et Helena Anrather, New York
LOUIS ROEDERER DISCOVERY AWARD 2021
This year, the artists shortlisted for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award will be exhibited in a group show where a wide range of works will resonate with each other. The 11 projects were selected from numerous submissions, largely from Europe. Reflecting a desire to question and rethink techniques and genres, they attest to a keen interest in the body and its place in the world as well as in the materiality of photography.
Sabine Weiss, Félix Labisse, painter and decorator, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1952
SABINE WEISS
A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE
For several years, Sabine Weiss has been recognized and honored as the last representative of the French humanist school. Yet few people are aware of the richness and diversity of her work, preserved intact in the house-studio where she has lived since 1949, and whose treasures she is only beginning to reveal. Describing herself as a photographer-artisan and a witness rather than an artist, the 96-year-old has built a true photographic monument in a free and independent spirit.
Almudena Romero, Family Album 1, 2020 / 2020 BMW Residency
ALMUDENA ROMERO
THE PIGMENT CHANGE
WINNER OF THE BMW RESIDENCY
Over the last few years, we've observed a growing interest in the materiality of photography. With her project The Pigment Change, Almudena Romero, winner of 2020's BMW Residency, uses ecological consciousness and organic matter to reflect an aesthetics of fragility, if not disappearance.
Enrique Ramírez, Sail N°6 instrumento poetico de una minima historia, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels.
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ENRIQUE RAMÍREZ
MIGRANT GARDENS
In 2020, the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP) hosted Enrique Ramírez as resident artist. Ramírez’ installations blur the lines between video, photography, text, music, and objects. In his work, the sea is the ultimate site of instability: it is a domain of memory in perpetual motion, a space onto which narratives are projected, and within which the fate of Chile and grand historical accounts of travel, conquest and migratory flows intersect.
International Sleeping-Car Company sleeping and dining cars being built at the Mashinen und Waggonbaufabrik in Vienna-Simmering. Photograph: Wilhelm Wagner, Atelier für industrielle und technische, 1930.
ORIENT-EXPRESS & CIE
BETWEEN HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY
Many tales, fabricated or based on facts, have been told about the Orient-Express, a technological achievement that became a cultural icon. Some have become legends, drowning historical reality in imaginative stories. It all started with the International Sleeping-Car Company, which ran the Orient-Express, the world’s first international luxury train, between Paris and Constantinople, later Istanbul, from 1883 to 1977.