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The Mulhouse Biennial of Photography aims to bring the public of Mulhouse into closer contact with photography. Exhibitions will be held in different cultural sites in Mulhouse and are completed by in situ installations together with a program of projections, lectures and meetings with photographers.

The programming presents international artists, with the hope of discovering new talent by means of a regular change of theme which changes each edition. The photographers in the 2013 edition position themselves in this present age of digital photography and are questioning the legitimacy of the different uses of photography by looking closely at contemporary society and its development.

One of the characteristics of photography in this digital age is the use of post-photographic processes. Artists play with existing photographs, their own or those of others. It is usual to “reshuffle the cards”, to appropriate known or anonymous images in order to displace meaning, or to realize utopian projects.

With this first edition of The Mulhouse Biennial of Photography, at the heart of emerging practice, even the photographic medium itself is at stake and being questioned. Play & Replay sets in motion the circulation of images by means of sharing, exchange and discovery.
The Biennial takes place every other year, alternately with the Mulhouse Biennial for Contemporary Art 00.

Its artistic director is Anne Immelé, photographer, PhD, specialist in photography, teacher at HEAR (Haut Ecole des Arts du Rhin), at the University of Haute Alsace and at the University of Strasbourg.

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Inderminacy and interpretation. Those two notions are undoubtly two keys that apply to John Cage’s compositional (writing) principles just as well as to the eponymous series by US artist Hannah Whitaker and to the work of french photographer Pierre Molinier.
Both Pierre Molinier’s and Hannah Whitaker’s works are indeed governed by imagination, and, in echo to John Cage, by the same attempt to organize a serialized material (dismembered bodies by Molinier, light patterns in the case of Whitaker). In a 1965 interview, Cage said that, in seeking to build on the elements usually bound to rejection, he has always felt on the side of the very things that one should not do. Do not we face here a statement that summarizes the attempts of Molinier, the photographer-maker of collages- inventor?
It has also been said of Whitaker that she lets the process of imagemaking infiltrate intention, so th at chance becomes an equal partner in determining the final product and pay a tribute to Cage chances operations». Body for one, landscape for the other, thus become an object of fantasy, a playing field for imagination, a «cosa mentale»

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Locust Projects is pleased to present the exhibition Limonene by New York-based artist Hannah Whitaker. The installation in the project room will consist of new, site-specific photographs printed on vinyl and adhered directly to the gallery walls. Using litter scavenged from Miami streets, Whitaker composed impromptu assemblages, all photographed in one week-long trip in February of 2013. She then re-exposed the film using light leaks—where light makes direct contact with the film—and other experimental in-camera techniques. Whitaker, who frequently makes photographs using unpredictable methods and unwieldy materials, continues to embrace chance in Limonene. Unlike past bodies of work however, the new photographs revolve around the material specificity of one particular place—Miami.

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After the museum of fine arts, Lille, the group exhibition Babel is presented at the Botanique, Bruxelles

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Sous influences, arts plastiques et produits psychotropes, La Maison Rouge with among others Isabelle Le Minh, Hélène Delprat, Daniel Pommereulle

Cette exposition explore les rapports entretenus par les artistes avec les produits psychotropes. Depuis l'aube de l'humanité, nos semblables ont croisé des substances psychoactives, plantes, champignons, macérations diverses. Ces rencontres ont entraîné stupéfaction, intoxication, dépendance, accès mystique, soulagement, mort, voire illumination. 

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Plateforme d'Art de Muret

31600 Muret

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Exhibition about the collection of FRAC Limousin, with works form the artists :

Armelle Aulestia, Véronique Boudier, Cécile Hartmann, Ariane Michel,
Nicolas Provost, Véronique Rizzo, Mika Rottenberg / Marilyn Minter, Chen Yang