Sabine Weiss, Charlotte Perriand, masculinities … ten exhibitions to see at the Rencontres d’Arles

The Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, canceled in 2020, open their doors on Sunday, July 4, with a tight schedule of exhibitions. Visits, debates, conferences and evenings of screenings are offered during the opening week (until July 11) and the exhibitions last all summer (until September 26).

Our selection of some exhibitions to see as a priority.

Sabine Weiss retrospective

The Rencontres pay tribute to the Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss, the last representative of so-called “humanist” photography, who is celebrating her 97th birthday this year. All the aspects of his immense work, in constant sympathy with the human being, are to be discovered or rediscovered: reportage, illustration, fashion, advertising, portraits of artists, alongside his personal work, more famous.
Chapelle du Museon Arlaten

Charlotte Perriand

Better known for her work as an architect and her work for the art of better living, Charlotte Perriand was also a photographer and notably used photomontage to denounce unsanitary town planning and advocate better living conditions. The exhibition delves into his collection of photographs: period prints, negatives, cut-out magazines, personal images shown for the first time, next to his monumental photomontages.
Monoprix

Masculinities

The exhibition studies how masculinity has been encoded, interpreted and constructed since the 1960s through film and photography. Images from more than 50 photographers and directors from all over the world who deliver complex and sometimes contradictory representations. They address the themes of power, patriarchy, queer identity, racial politics, women’s perceptions of men, hypermasculine stereotypes, tenderness and family.
General mechanics, Parc des Ateliers

The New Black Vanguard

From New York to Johannesburg, from Lagos to London, the exhibition explores the contemporary vocabulary of young black photographers, notably in fashion magazines, advertising and museums, around the representation of the beauty of the black body and the lives of Black.
Sainte-Anne Church

Since everything had to be rethought: the world according to Latin American feminists

The exhibition considers the world after, the one in which we would like to live, in the light of feminist struggles since the 1970s, through the works of twenty Latin American artists who question globalized capitalism.
Van Gogh Space

Portraits de Pieter Hugo

“I almost always start my work by introducing myself: I look and I am looked back. When you create a portrait, the cynicism disappears for a brief moment. There is beauty in being held in the gaze of the woman. other”, says Pieter Hugo. The exhibition features more than 100 bust portraits taken by the South African photographer since the turn of the century.
Archbishop’s Palace

Chow & Lin and foods from the poverty line

For ten years, the artists Chow & Lin, born respectively in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore and working in Beijing, have been interested in the meal that we could afford when we have an income close to the poverty line. They surveyed 36 countries on six continents and photographed the food on sheets of local newspapers.
Travelers Garden

North Korean portraits of Stéphan Gladieu

Stéphan Gladieu was able to work in North Korea, where he produced portraits, often of a group, full-length, and a little frozen. “The concept of frontal pose, the rigorous framework of my portraits was familiar and understandable to them; and then the device, which voluntarily flirts with the codes of the propaganda image, made me static, predictable and controllable”, explains the photographer.
Summer garden

Thawra, images of the Sudanese revolution

In December 2018, a popular uprising began which would lead to the fall of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir after 30 years in power. A new generation of photographers, actors and witnesses, have documented the demonstrations and posted their images on social networks. The exhibition shows the work of eight photographers and a filmmaker who took to the streets for five months alongside the youth of their country, ready to challenge power.
Church of the Trinitarians

Jazz Power: 1954-1974, twenty years of “Jazz Magazine”

The exhibition looks back over twenty years of Jazz Magazine : from the first issue in December 1954, a black artist, Lionel Hampton, was on the front page at a time when the laws of segregation were still in force in the United States. The French review introduces jazz in France while encouraging musical borrowings and cultural exchanges, and testifying to the struggles against discrimination on both sides of the Atlantic.
Cruise

After Sabine Weiss last year, American photographer Liz Johnson Artur received the Women in Motion award. For 30 years, she has photographed the African diaspora around the world. She works in London. “What interests me are people, people whom I do not see represented anywhere”, she says. Her prize will be awarded to her on Monday, July 5, during the first of three evenings at the Ancient Theater where she will present her work.

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