Exhibitions, theater, books… Every two weeks, Madame Figaro presents its cultural selection.
Bettina Rheims, the difficulties of photographs
In 2018, at the initiative of the Hauts de France region (in collaboration with Rencontres d’Arles), the Institute of Photography in Lille reopens its doors for the autumn season with eight artists whose work responds to societal issues. Focus on the series Kim Harlow, Stories By Bettina Reims. An encounter with a transgender person, Alexandra Giroux, aka Kim Harlow, influenced her work, encouraging her to question gender identity, to capture the moment of transition between feminine and masculine. Thirty years later, the photographer brings a new look to her archive.
Until December 24, 2023, institute-photo.com
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at the Christine Ango Theatre
In 1999, Christine Angot published Incest. A stone in silence. We are informed that his father subjected him to incest since he was 14 years old. Back in 2012 A week off then, in 2021, back Journey to the East, the author returns to this family, a psychological, anthropological disaster, emphasizing control, domination, power. Adapted to the theater Journey to the East Directed by Stanislas Nordey, performed by Cécile Brun and Claude Duparfay. Public communal theater.
From November 28 to December 8 at the National Theater in Strasbourg, then from 1eh March to March 15 at the Theater of Nanterre-Amandier.
Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Painting Above All
The artist, represented by Perotin Gallery, is now known, the case is solved. But the writer, the author of four novels, incl Dilution of the artist currently being adapted for film remains to be discovered. His story Draw in front of you it is the chronicler of the time, it is the memoir of the 20th century. He talks about his childhood (“Endless childhood”, as Stendhal said) and emphasizes his professional adventures, from Cherbourg to London via Tokyo, London or Paris… As a common theme, the importance of painting and then painting. This summary of life has style and spirit. All of Delhomme.
Jean-Philippe Delom, Draw in front of you editions-exiles.fr:
Julien Kruse in store in Grenoble
View of Julien Crouse’s work, Zombie Zombie Eterno2023, Courtesy of the artist. CNAC store. Photo: Aurélien Mole
As a prelude to the Venice Biennale (April 20 to November 24, 2024), where Julien Crouse will represent France in the French Pavilion, curators Cécile Cope and Cindy Sissosoho present: Oh, phone, black oracle (…) the individual exhibition of the artist. Spread over 2,000 square meters, it is an inventory of his practice, referring to Edouard Glissant’s Archipelago metaphor, which combines sculptures and a collection of video works. Where we discover the beating heart of his work: sound, voice, music, rhythm of bodies. Poetic and sensual.
Oh phone, black oracle (…)Julien Creuzet, magazine-cnac.org
Pompeian interior. nice book
House of the Vettii, VI 15, 1 (Casa dei Vettii) luigispina For the cover only, luigispina
AD Destroyed in seconds by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, Pompeii has always mesmerized visitors from Le Corbusier to Robin Williams, including Goethe, Simone de Beauvoir and Herman Melville. Photographer Luigi Spina did not escape this fascination. His photographic journey, which began in 2020, amid the pandemic, invites us to explore the middle and upper class apartments of the ancient city. In this gorgeous book program. something never seen before, a light that rises, a passage of time.
Pompeian interiorLuigi Spina, fivecontinentseditions.fr
Source: Le Figaro
