The Foto itinerances festival opens on May 10 at the Chapel of the Haut district for a prelude and in around twenty places in Sète, from May 24.
Thirty artists photographers in the picture rails, 24 places on three artistic discovery circuits. These few figures have been giving the measure of the path traveled for three years by the Foto Halle Festival in Sète. Installed in the photographic landscape at the start in the form of a modest “off”, “Very friendly”in the wake of singular images, now disoriented in the Cévennes, the appointment can now deploy to its measure. Helped by growing success.
“At the start, we were a few friends to want to create a place dedicated to the photo and in particular to its history”says Sylvie Renoux, also founder of the journey of art in Avignon. Passionate about this protean art since always and even collectors for some, Sylvie and her husband Bernard Renoux, with Pascal Larderet, Solange Haccart, Jean-Michel Ducroux (Festival “Art’Images) and Raphaël Masquelier, they found the Half Association and launch, three years ago in the establishment of what can be started today in the Festivals section.
“We don’t give a way to follow, but art questions the world”
For almost a month (May 10 to June 9), the third edition on the theme “Rives and Drifts around Mediterranean” unfolds through galleries, workshops, walls, museums, gardens and even boats in the city, for a dive in “The diversity of points of view, techniques and processes, old to AI”summarizes Raphaël Masquelier.
“Sète arrived near you”: the orotones of Fred Trobrillant
FOTO Itinerances is also an opportunity to discover old or original processes still used for artistic purposes by photographers artists. As at the Catherine Leveque gallery, which will exhibit the work of the Sétois Fred Trobrillant. Reporter-photographer trained at ENSP d’Arles, he intervenes as a teacher in several schools in fine arts. To discover his series “Sète who arrived near you”, he questions the representation of reality, from the shots of Sète, where he projects an uncertain future. The offbeat and impactful result is obtained thanks to the Orotone technique. A silver print process on glass, previously coated with an emulsion to the silver gelatinobromure. After development, the back of the plate is golden hand.
-Through photographers from here and elsewhere. “We are attached to Sète and his local artists, continues Sylvie Renoux, But we also open on the Mediterranean, Mare Nostrum, the heart of our culture, its geographies, its points of view, its authors and the fights of this region of the globe. We do not give a path to follow, but art questions the world. We provide images, expressions and we say : “What do you think?”. With a key word: “Conviviality, meeting at the heart of the project”. The routes, conceived as so many artistic and cultural discoveries of the city, will take you from the marine cemetery to the short point (the Pointe Courte Recaplik gallery of the Sétois, Jean-Loup Gautreau) passing the rue de Tunis, the Paul Valéry Museum, the Crac walls or the Mitterrand media library.
A prelude to the chapel of the upper quarter
The event starts from May 10, with a prelude to the chapel of the upper quarter. A novelty. Until June 1, it welcomes international renown authors. Anne-Lise Bryer who offers a trip through the intimate and political memories of the Mediterranean, “were we living there?”. Alain Ceccaroli devotes his exhibition to “Aleppo his lost serenity”. Didier Ben Loulou, winner of the Medici city outside the walls, invites the eye to a “quiet wandering”, intimate, echoing the art of living on his childhood on the banks of the Mediterranean.
The Gallery of the Tank will also accommodate three powerful universes, which also collide. The seasonal Mediterranean “French Riviera” by Laurence Kourcia, “Marseille” between Beau, ugly, absurd and common according to Pascal Kempenar and the family drama “Spetri di Famiglia” by Ulrich Lebeuf.
The other major interest in Foto itinerants is meetings with photographers around their opening or during conferences or projections, at the rate of one event per day. Like that of the dedicated “air” magazine “which will celebrate its 25th anniversary at the Coœdia cinema on May 29 at 8:30 p.m. The inaugural opening with the presentation of all the guests is scheduled for Saturday May 24 at 11:30 a.m. on the Nocca trawler.
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