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Gaea - Text by Clara D’Ambrosio Gaea swayed voluptuously, accompanied with her graceful movements the melody of the blackbirds and the chirping of cicadas. The Calabrian heat enveloped her body, and her dry skin craved that dew that she had been waiting for too long. She loved to let herself be touched lightly by the herds who, with respect and veneration, fed on her flesh and plowed, slowly and yet…

Amin El Dib follows a unique path of the brutal deconstruction of his images. The new construction, created from the destroyed image, touches the retina and thus our innermost being, sometimes to the point of pain. The whole idea aims to capture the ephemeral nature of life and its fragility. We show the early works of Artaud Mappen (1988-1992), “Artaud folders”) that were created in Berlin, in particular in Kreuzberg.…

Dysnomia crosses matter and time. Introspection of an organic world where the infinitely small is immensity, where forests are made of the same material as stars, where fire dances with the shadow of men. Two worlds meet: that of the living, with irregular shapes, revealing faces in the hollows of trees, where a shape gives birth to a movement, a blossoming, and that of the alienation of man, locked in,…

Some images are overloaded with stories, so heavy with narrative that they are left to peacefully spread over the world. These images flow, and when gazing at them, we are swept up in a flood of possible words and hidden worlds. There is a certain magic in passing through these images; we fly from one space to another without ever knocking into one another because there are so many things…

The fiVe artists collective of Vienna reveals the visible and the invisible, jostles habits and redraws borders. It presents current themes by pushing them to the extreme or handling them with subtlety: urbanization, climate change, the environment, migrations and the role of women. With Concrete Paradise Barbara Filips develops fantastical dream-like images where the frontiers between reality and function grow nebulous in various fantasized settings. She plays with utopias and…

"Has my view of the world partly changed, given that for a while now I have been in contact with Chinese culture, which was once completely unknown to me? Suddenly my subconscious makes me discover new things and scenes in the streets from day to day and everywhere. It feels like I am in the middle of a fairytale with all its facets. Am I dreaming? Or has it got…

"The series Bientôt nous danserons (Soon we’ll dance) was conceived and produced during the second lockdown. Like many, we view partying as a cultural and social value. Like many, we want it to last. Through these photographs, we navigate through this very special parenthesis of silence, pause, pleasure, desire and anticipation of celebrations, to remember that they are essential to our lives as social beings. The series presents a selection…

Today almost everyone can operate a camera, but does it make him a photographer? To be a photographer requires a special ability - the ability of photographic vision. This particular vision can be learned and developed over time. The Ostkreuzschule in Berlin offers training formed in the artisanal, mental, and emotional skills of this ability. After artistic basic studies, the focus is on the development of a personal visual language.…

The Dress code program brings together some forty artists offering unique perspectives on identity and clothes in the world. Clothing is representative of an aspect of identity; it can arouse desire by sublimating the human body, in particular through adornment, but also reveal codes and standards. Dress codes allow integration into society or, on the contrary, rejection, emancipation but also demands. Symbol of globalization, fashion, place of subjectivation and desubjectivation,…

With this sentence, pronounced at the beginning of the film The Matrix (largely inspired by the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard: “the simulacrum is true”), Morpheus invites Neo to become aware of the reality of a world that he had until then only perceived through its distorted representation, created from start to finish by the Matrix. Twenty years after the film’s release, at a time when information is circulating under the pressure of…

This exhibition of photographic portraits will bring together a large set of around 60 photographs as well as a polyptych of 250 small format photographs, all from the MEP's collection. Bringing together iconic works from the 20th century, the selection mixes genres, geographical locations and temporal spaces. Each author is represented by a selection of several photographs, and each group will be confronted to each other. Friends, lovers, strangers,… the…

Synonymous with the art of travel since 1854, Louis Vuitton continues to add titles to its "Fashion Eye" collection. Each book evokes a city, a region or a country, seen through the eyes of a photographer. Since his first trip to Cordoba, Miles Aldrige has maintained the same loving eye for the luxury and heaviness of its religious processions. It happens that one falls in love with a city by…

Whatever you do, don’t tell Katrien de Blauwer that she makes collages: “Let's say I’m a photographer without a camera. For me, cutting is comparable to clicking on the shutter release”. She snips, glues, assembles, infringes, colors and handles photographs from the old magazines she collects. Close to photomontage or film editing, her works conceal an intense narrative charge. They are linked to memory and personal history, but, paradoxically, as…

G and H are the initials of artist duo Gal (Marinelli Cipreste) and Hiroshima (Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro). Rodrigo, who owes her Japanese nickname to the fact that she has an appearance between genres, survived being stoned as a child for having asserted her non-standard identity. Gal is trans herself. Together, they fight to free their pasts from shame, and proudly choose life in a country where violence against the LGBTQIA+…

For the exhibition Our Grandmothers' Gardens, Olga Grotova tells the story of her ancestors and country using three media: a film, historical magazines, and two works on paper. The film recounts the artist’s return to the Ural Mountains with her mother. They go out to find a parcel of land that belonged to her great-grandmother in the Soviet era, then to her grandmother, ending up in collective ownership. The artist’s viewpoint…