For its sixteenth edition, the Circulation(s) festival more than ever asserts a collective, plural gaze. With the arrival of three new members within the artistic direction, seven perspectives all women now intersect to question the world’s transformations and the contemporary forms of emerging European creativity.
This plurality is reflected in the projects presented, marked by an asserted transversal approach between photography and other artistic practices. This hybridization that runs through contemporary creation is now felt with renewed intensity: the works overflow the frame, emancipate themselves from the walls, and inhabit multiple supports. The boundaries between disciplines fade, making way for open, shifting visual narratives.
Facing an unstable world, traversed by uncertainty and the feeling of a loss of control, the artists choose an intentional theatricality. By proposing microcosms, fictions, or stagings of the real, they invest the imagination as a space of resistance, and for reclaiming narrative and gaze. While vivid colors, humor, and playful forms often dominate, this apparent lightness serves deeper stakes: behind the pop, the political; behind aesthetics, radicality.
Whether it is memory family, collective, national work with archives, or reflections on transmission, the works attest to plural, shifting, fragmented identities in constant recomposition. Thus, our focus is devoted to Ireland, whose insularity and dualities crystallize these contemporary tensions with particular clarity.
Finally, ecological concerns also run through this edition, approached through the prism of the living. Facing the anxiety of an uninhabitable future, the artists fashion makeshift refuges that reconnect them to the Earth. Through rituals, repetitive gestures, and a sustained attention to the seemingly insignificant—sources of meaning and resistance—they sketch other ways of inhabiting our world.
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The Fetart collective
Creator and Artistic Director of the Circulation(s) festival
Circulation(s) 2026 : Festival de la jeune photographie européenne
21 March — 17 May 2026
Centquatre-Paris
5 rue Curial
75019 Paris
www.104.fr
