TESTING REALITY, BORDERS AND THE IMAGINATION
The point is to submit to experience so as to test its qualities; the photographer’s proof print, the trials and tribulations of the traveller, the ordeal of entire peoples, the way that poetry and art put reality on trial by transcending it.
According to Lévi-Strauss, man can change his behaviour because he is a being of culture(s). Understanding and sensitivity structure his perception of things. Art is therefore essential.
RÉFLEXIVITÉ(S) is a revealing name. The event invites us to reflexivity in our intimacies, a return to the self that truly allows the encounter with the other.
RÉFLEXIVITÉ(S) is a confluence, hoped for and designed as such. It is urgent that we meet there, unvarnished, without misplaced ethnological curiosity, face to face, heart to heart, soul to soul.
At RÉFLEXIVITÉ(S) photographers share what one is not being shown, testify to what they want, to their out-of-frame images.
RÉFLEXIVITÉ(S)’s edition #1 will feature 9 exhibitions,
— VÉRONIQUE DE VIGUERIE, LA VIE EN ROSE, Léna Mauger
- ADRIENNE SURPRENANT, A SLEEPLESS COUNTRY, Adèle Surprenant
— ÉDOUARD ELIAS, S.O.S. AQUARIUS, Gwenaëlle Lenoir
— PIERRE DE VALLOMBREUSE, LOST GRACE, Sophie-Pulchérie Gadmer
— GABRIELLE DUPLANTIER, LES ENFANTS D'ICI, Claude Nori and Jean-Baptiste Andrea
— CÉLINE CROZE, ADIEXODO, Simon Johannin
— MAYCO NAING & ISABELLE HA EAV, PRINTEMPS BIRMAN [BURMESE SPRING], Wendy Law-Yone
— Anais Tondeur, Tchernobyl Herbarium, Michael Marder
— Dmitry Markov, Doucha, Kirill Serebrennikov
AROUND THE EVENT,
The first 3 days are devoted to meetings and exchanges between the artists and the public
A number of screenings will be shown, including the work currently being completed in Ukraine.
A transitory bookshop is set up in partnership with the bookshop La rumeur des crêtes
A catalogue of the event is published by Les éditions de Juillet
BEYOND THE EVENT,
Photo workshops led by these photographers are offered throughout the year
An artist's residency is beginning this winter
In 2023 a debate on ethno-pho-tography will bring together photographers, historians, anthropologists, journalists, publishers, novelists and explorer
LE MOT DU FONDATEUR
Réflexivité(s) was born of a spark, of a sensitive impulse; it is first and foremost the story of a passion for photography, of an encounter.
Through and beyond this event, we want to pay a tribute to this magnificent vector of emotions.
We are convinced that art contributes to bringing us together, to moving us, to questioning us, to awakening our consciences, in short, to making this world a better place.
Réflexivité(s), beyond its artistic nature, provides us with a political, anthropological, sociological dimension, another vision of the world: the world as it is or the world as we would like it to be. It is all about the gaze and its capacity to set us in motion to progress in our perceptive fields.
Réflexivité(s) is a space for freedom of expression(s).
Therefore, it was deemed appropriate to link writing and photography by inviting authors to enter into a dialogue. Among these magical conversations between images and words, let us quote this exchange between the novelist and poet Simon Johannin and Céline Croze: "Here are my words, which I have sought to infuse into your images".
We do hope that this first edition of Réflexivité(s) will be a surprise, that of a real pathway into this very reality over which we have a hold.
Réflexivité(s), a photographic and anthropological event was born, as an open window on the world and its contradictions... All we have to do is follow the path suggested by the artists.
