The Transphotographiques Festival presents the majority of the exhibitions within the city of Lille, in places as numerous as they are eclectic, under the direction of two curators, Françoise Paviot and Gabriel Bauret.
The Tri Postal. Located in downtown Lille, the Tri Postal is an old industrial building, formerly used as the center for the mail sorting/distribution, today is an remarkable space of contemporary creation. With each of its three 2,000m2 floors, the Tri Postal features the main exhibitions of the festival. You will find work by JS Cartier, immortalizing through the series Traces de la Grande Guerre! the vestiges of World War I in the most turbulent war zones such as the North, the Pas de Calais and the Belgian Flanders. Discover Spielzeug, a new work by Jürgen Nefzger representing abandoned toys in a very frontal and documentary approach. These Spielzeug (toys, in English) have been collected and gathered together from a multitude of miscellaneous objects, by a marginal character that the photographer found while working on a commission ordered by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque. Jean-Christophe Béchet offers a personal view of “his” North: He inquires about the place where the North truly begins. The voyage begins at the doors of Paris… Anne-Marie Filaire draws an inventory of the borders between the Nord Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: borders that have disappeared and left a place for a no man’s land.
JS Cartier, Traces de la Grande Guerre
Anne Favret and Patrick Manez, B comme Bruxelles
Jürgen Nefzger, Spielzeug
Valérie Broquisse, After
Jean-Christophe Béchet, France Nord
Jacqueline Salmon, Sangatte
Florence Chevallier, Toucher Terre
Patrick Tourneboeuf, Les Stèles
Marie-Noëlle Boutin, Land of Youth
Anne-Marie Filaire, Transborders
Ten years, Ten photographers: the heirs of a favorable context
(Jean-Marie Dautel, Philippe Bazin,
Philip Bernard, Franck Bernard, Olivier Despitcht, Rémy Guerrin, Gilles Decavel, Bertrand Gadenne, Gerald Garbez, Jean-Philippe
Materne, Hervé Robillard, Antoine Petitprez.)
Calls for projects: Gilles Cruypenynck, Hervé Dorval, Nicolas Fussler, Frédéric Lecloux, Boris Rogez.
The Palais des Beaux-Arts. The Palais des Beaux-Arts is one of the largest museums in France. Located in the heart of the city, Place de la République, the Palais features an exhibition by Gabriele Basilico. The Italian photographer, guest of honor of the Festival’s 2011 edition, presents a retrospective of his work as well as a photo series on the Northern region. The latter is a commission made by the Délégation à l’aménagement du Territoire et à l’action régionale (DATAR) in 1984. Thank to his meticulous photography, Gabriele Basilico makes an inventory associating nature to what is built. This approach allows one to understand certain mutations, certain disorders, to detect possible evolutions. This mission constitutes for the photographer a moment of his career and an essential perspective: He has found a method, refined the challenges of his photography, established a style coupled with the imposed rhythm of the use of a view camera.
Gabriele Basilico, DATAR 1984 – 1985, Rétrospective, Claude Mollard, Lille’s origins and Grafogènes
