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.
Isabelle Le Minh (FR) Worshipers of the Sun
Isabelle Le Minh (FR) Worshipers of the Sun
June 15, 2013
