"Saying that the summer of 2022 will be one of revelations seems almost like stating the obvious. How can we be made to see what is staring us in the face, but takes so long to appear, as if the revelation could only be a forced birth?
Photography, photographers and artists who use the medium are there to remind us of what we want to neither hear nor see. Yet, as Emanuele Coccia recalls, “it is to the visible, to images, that man turns for a radical testimony of his own being, his own nature”. Every summer, the Rencontres d’Arles seizes a condition, demands, criticizes, rebels against established standards and categories and shakes up the way we look at things from one continent to another, reminding us of our absolute need to exist.
Photography captures our existence in all its aspects, but it has not always mirrored the incredible richness and diversity of the artists. A long process of recognizing women photographers has been underway for about 40 years. Continuing the festival’s commitment, this year many venues will host shows reflecting their influence and creativity, from historic figures to forgotten or poorly known artists and today’s emerging young talents."
Christoph Wiesner, Director of the Rencontres d’Arles
PROGRAM OF THE EXHIBITIONS OF THE 53RD EDITION OF THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES
PERFORMING
A Feminist Avant-Garde / Photographs and Performances of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection, Vienna
Babette Mangolte / Capturing movements in space
Winner Of The 2022 Women In Motion Award
Susan Meiselas & Marta Gentilucci / Cartographies du corps
EXPERIMENTING
Noémie Goudal / Phoenix
Bettina Grossman / Bettina. A poem of perpetual renewal
Frida Orupabo / How Fast Shall We Sing
Sandra Brewster / Blur
Lukas Hoffmann / Evergreen
Songs Of The Sky / Photography & The Cloud
Winner of the 2019 Rencontres d’Arles curatorial research fellowship.
EMERGING
2022 Louis Roederer Discovery
Exhibition Curator: Taous Dahmani.
Wang Yimo / Theater On Earth
2021 Jimei X Arles Discovery Award Winner
Sathish Kumar / Town Boy
2020 Serendipity Arles Grant Winner
Arash Hanaei & Morad Montazami / Suburban Hauntology
2022 Bmw Art Makers Program Winners
Cassandre Colas, Gaëlle Delort, Maxime Muller / Special Attention
Pierfrancesco Celada / When I feel down, I take a train to the happy valley
2021 Photo Folio Review Winner
EXPLORING & TESTIFYING
If A Tree Falls In A Forest
winner of the Rencontres d’Arles and Institut Français Curatorial Research Fellowship-Africa Projects.
Bruno Serralongue / Water Protectors
Julien Lombardi / The land where the sun was born
Léa Habourdin / Images-Forests: Worlds in expansion
Ritual Inhabitual / Geometrical Forests. Struggles in Mapuche territory
Imagined Documents
But Still, It Turns
Estefania Penafiel Loaiza / Carmen (Repetitions)
REVISITING
Lee Miller / Professional Photographer (1932–1945)
A World To Heal / 160 Years of photography from the collections of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent
Romain Urhausen / In his time
Mitch Epstein / In India, 1978 – 1989
AND ALSO
- Arles Books
- Arles Associé
- Grand Arles Express