Lectoure announces its photography programme for summer 2026.
In contrast to sensationalist media imagery, the artists featured this year in Lectoure’s L’été photographique each focus in their own way on what surrounds us but remains unseen, or which we no longer see because it is so familiar.
They take up the line of inquiry explored in Georges Perec’s *L’Infra-ordinaire* (1989), when he writes: ‘What really happens, what we experience, the rest, all the rest where is it? What happens every day and recurs every day the banal, the everyday, the obvious, the commonplace, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual how can we give an account of it, how can we question it, how can we describe it?’
The festival’s programme thus brings together artistic practices linked to the imperceptible, to what might be described as ‘almost nothing ’. Consequently, some of the photographers featured in the exhibitions have chosen to focus on their immediate surroundings and the landscapes familiar to them. Other artists direct their gaze at the level of everyday objects, seeking to reveal what is not necessarily visible at first glance and which resists hasty observation, such as the invisible traces of pollution.
This summer, the Lectoure Centre for Art and Photography invites us to pay attention to what we might all too easily overlook. For if we take the time as these artistic projects demonstrate we realise that everything that makes up everyday life, when perceived with sensitivity, can, on the contrary, become a potential subject. Each in their own way, these different perspectives remind us just how much, even today, photography remains a formidable tool for making the world around us more comprehensible.
Lilian Froger, exhibition curator
Opening days and times
From 11 July to 20 September 2026
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 2 pm to 7 pm
Closed in the event of an orange heatwave alert
Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays in September
Admission: €10
Free entry for residents of Lectourois, members, press, under-18s, art and cultural mediation students, people with reduced mobility, jobseekers and recipients of minimum social benefits.
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