BMW ART MAKERS 2026 - Exposition « Le corps vitré » - Paris Photo

Patron of the arts for more than 50 years, BMW Group France affirms a constant commitment to artistic creation. Through its BMW ART MAKERS program and its partnerships with major events such as Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, Paris Photo or Art Basel Paris, BMW actively supports innovation and contemporary talent in the visual arts field. This commitment extends naturally into the 7th art as official partner of the Cannes Film Festival and the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival, illustrating a strong and cross-cutting presence in major cultural events.

Since 2003, BMW has been a partner of Paris Photo. Following Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles, this second chapter of the exhibition "Le corps vitré", created by the winning duo of the BMW ART MAKERS program, will be presented under the glass dome of Le Grand Palais in Paris. For the occasion, new works will be showcased and the scenography will be entirely redesigned and conceived especially to sublimate this new chapter.

Winners of the BMW ART MAKERS 2026 program, artist Lara Tabet and curator Yasmine Chemali present "Le corps vitré". With this artistic project, Lara Tabet unveils an unprecedented series, extending her ambitious project "Personal Cartography of Entangled Toxicities".

Through new visual devices, she explores the living as a porous and interdependent network, drawing on a sensitive mapping of Marseille's waters.

Fountains, streams, estuary, Old Port or simple puddles: her samples, taken at the urban margins, reveal water as a medium of circulation, mixture and contamination. Her protocol, based on collaboration with microorganisms, allows bacteria to grow before being fixed on film with colored gelatin. Glass prints, bioplastics and "living" images thus compose works where the living becomes co-author: "I create the conditions, then the living draws." Lara Tabet.

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