After the 2021 edition in a smaller format, due to the pandemic, the Rencontres d’Arles opens this year with forty exhibitors. Madame Figaro-Arles Photo Prize, which was created in 2016, is accepted for the sixth time. Eight women were selected from the photographers participating in the festival.
Sandra Brewster
Sandra Brewster is a Canadian visual artist. She works on Black identity, visibility, memory and representation. The daughter of parents born in British Guiana, she is particularly interested in the lived experiences of Caribbean communities and their relationship to their place of origin. He uses painting, video and various photographic media and proposes installations that incorporate the architecture of exhibition spaces. He has recently exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2021-2022) and Or Gallery (Vancouver, 2019). An artist residency at the Loghaven Artist Residency (Knoxville, Tennessee) and an exhibition at the Hartnett Gallery (Rochester, New York) are planned for 2022. Back BlurSince 2017, Sandra Brewster has been offering a series of very large format photographic portraits featuring friends, family members and some of the icons of black culture. The gel transfer technique that has become his signature thus leaves visible scratch marks that are specific to each location in the exhibition.
blur, in general mechanics.
Micah Sperling
Mika Sperling is the youngest of eight children, born in northern Siberia in 1990, where her family lived for twenty years before moving to Germany when she was one. He studied photography and book design at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt and Bielefeld, then at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his MFA in 2018. His work combines photography and writing. face her inner fears and overcome traumas. His work I didn’t do anything wrong asks the question: how to break the family and public taboo? Talking, or otherwise, taking pictures. The title of the project is inspiring and multi-meaning: on the one hand, it quotes the words of the grandfather refusing to accuse, and on the other hand, the voice of a confused child. Today, Micah Sperling, armed with her vulnerability and fascinated by her resilience, rejects shame by surrounding it with images and words.
I didn’t do anything wrong Prix Découverte Louis Roederer, Frères-Prêcheurs Church.
Maya-Ines Tuam
Born in France in 1988 to Algerian parents, Maya-Ines Touam claims the perspective of an immigrant granddaughter to construct her work between the shores of the Mediterranean, bringing into play an identity that is both familiar and foreign. A graduate of Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2013, he makes research that is both anthropological and dreamlike, using different mediums (photographs, drawings, sculptures, etc.) and using personal or symbolic objects. In 2017, he was awarded by the Moroccan Alliance Foundation. In 2021, during a residency at Fondation H in France, he expands his research to the country’s diasporas on the African continent, offering a post-colonial perspective on immigration. In DuplicateMaya-Ines Tuam questions the value of bequests. What creative space for Algerian immigrant wife and child? It delves into the work of French painter, draftsman and engraver Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and offers a new visual vocabulary with a playful and thoughtful undertone.
duplicate Discovery Prize Louis Roederer, Frères-Prêcheurs Church.
Perrin Jelliot
Born in 1994 in Courbevoie near Paris, Perrin Geliot graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020, exhibited at the Silpakorn Gallery in Bangkok, as a residency at Silpakorn University in 2018. In 2021, his works were displayed alongside. to the other young artists in the exhibition Abes Fabes Kartoflyabes in the Paris Palace of Fine Arts. She was nominated for the Tara Ocean residency. His photographic subjects offer a vision of a dreamscape where sculpture and image merge, photography becoming a material in itself. His exhibitions evoke journeys and dreams through a physical and contemplative approach. “It’s the magic of the image in the dark that drew me to photography. For this exhibition at the Commanderie Sainte-Luce, which I share with Sandra Rocha, I propose a photographic journey into the heart of the image and its possibilities.”
Sandra Rocha and Perrin Jéliot, First Edition of Pernot Ricard Mentorship, Sainte-Luce Commandery.
Sylvia Ballhouse
Born in Halle (Germany) in 1977, graduated from Darmstadt in 2002 with a degree in design and communication, specializing in photography. In 2007-2011, she studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Sylvia Ballhaus participated in several group exhibitions and international festivals. In 2013-2017, he worked at the Museum of Modern Art in Mannheim. In 2018, he took care of the photography days in Darmstadt. He comments on his series Cloudscapes “In August and September 2012, I worked as an artist on the island of Halsnøy on the west coast of Norway. During this residency, I often walked along the shore. I quickly realized that I cannot exclude the surrounding landscape from my work. But the landscape of the island inspired me not so much as the sky, No moment, no form ever returns. Only photography can capture the different forms of clouds and classify them.’
CloudscapesSongs of Heaven, at Monoprix.
Amina Kadous
This visual artist explores the concepts of memory. Born in Cairo in 1991, he received his BA in Boston. He believes in the transitory nature of experience. Confidence. “Nothing lasts. Experiences, objects, and moments in the physical world only last as long as they are transmitted.” For him, a photograph is an object containing memories and meanings. Exhibited in London, Boston, Paris, Cape Town and Bamako, his works connect past and present. The exploration of time, like introspection, allows him to understand himself. He recently presented A crack in my memory during 12:00e Edition of the Bamako Photography Biennale and won the Center Soleil d’Afrique Award. “The first seeds of my identity were planted in El Mehalla Al Kobra, where I was born,” he says in the introduction to his series. White gold On El Mehalla, the city of Egyptian cotton, an important center of harvesting and weaving. White gold is a research of his identity and national identity.
White gold. If a tree falls in the forest, In the cruise area.
Sukanya Ghosh
Born in Kolkata in 1973, Sukanya studied painting at the Fine Arts Department of the University of Baroda and animation at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He is the winner of the 2020 FLOW Photo Festival Wall Exhibition. He has also received commissions for Five Million Incidents (a series of events organized by India’s Goethe Institute and Raqs Collective) and Flash France 2017-2018. A multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, photography, animation and film, she is interested in the details of urban life, popular culture and how our memory is changing. In recent years, Sukanya has been working on photographs found and discarded from her personal archive. “These works were made from gelatin silver photographs from my family’s archives, most of them faded, damaged and without indications of provenance. They have become the frame from which the work allows viewers to immerse themselves in an immersive experience of crystallized time.
Time travel. Illustrated documentsin Ground Control.
Bani Abidi
Bani Abidi was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1971 and now works between Berlin and the Pakistani capital. He uses video and photography as a means to comment on politics and culture, often using humorous and absurd vignettes. He studied visual arts at the National College of Art, Lahore and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is featured in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Tate Modern, London; Sharjah Art Foundation; Spencer Museum of Art; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; From the Margulies Collection of Miami. It is also displayed in other collections of private as well as public institutions.
Karachi-1. illustrated documents, At the ground control site.
Source: Le Figaro
