PhotoSaintGermain - Beaux-Arts de Paris x ENSP - Histoires matérielles

Material Histories

In partnership with PhotoSaintGermain, the École nationale supérieure des Beaux‑Arts de Paris and the École nationale supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles continue their collaboration and join forces once again to organize an exhibition entitled Material Histories. Photography is eminently linked to a material history, dependent on mineral extraction (from the silver of the medium's beginnings to the rare earths of Inner Mongolia today). Drawing on the question of extractivist legacies that informs research at the Beaux‑Arts de Paris, this exhibition takes the materiality of the image as its starting point to uncover, beneath the surface, associated subterranean histories. In a connected manner, it touches on the modes of production of a work, on an archaeological approach to media as much as an ecological and post-colonial approach. It opens up to experimental as well as documentary forms. Reworking matter, extracting resources or data, unearthing stories, and bringing shadowy areas to light are all paths to explore.

École nationale supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles :

Aida Lechugo, Eliot Stein, Gabrielle Lubliner, Guillaume Chevalier Fustec, Lila Niel, Luka Perkins Petit, Melina Rard, Susanna de Vido, Adrien Limousin, Pol Gallo, Marion Hamiez, Calista Bizzari Malou, Teeradon Thongsaard

École nationale supérieure des Beaux‑Arts de Paris :

Augustin Decarsin, Josefa Caruz Clement, Joseph Rozé – Atelier Burki, Juliette Barthe, Mona Tchepiega, Nathan Galli, Nazanin Pirmohammadizadeh, Rachel Borenzstein, William Basseux, Mattéo Sita, Yijia Liu (Ika Ryu), Leonard Berthou, Clarisse Pillard, Amalia Kalifa, Lena Druhles

This exhibition takes place within the framework of the PhotoSaintGermain festival. Organized in the heart of Paris, in the iconic Saint‐Germain‐des‐Prés neighborhood, PhotoSaintGermain is an annual festival dedicated to promoting photographic creation.

PhotoSaintGermain offers a free and freely accessible exhibition tour across a selection of museums, cultural centers, galleries, and bookstores on the Left Bank. This tour highlights a sharp and eclectic program designed by associated galleries, as well as several original exhibitions and novel projects imagined and produced by the festival.