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Ouka Leele
La Movida - A chronicle of turmoil, 1978-1988
Rencontres d'Arles
Palais de l'Archevêché
13200 Arles (FRANCE)
+33 (0)4 90 96 76 06
From 2019-07-01 to 2019-09-22
This exhibition brings together the work of four photographers from La Movida, one of the most remarkable and spontaneous movements to arise out of contemporary culture in Spain. It took place in Madrid, mainly, at the beginning of the 1980s.
After several decades of dictatorship and ostracism, Spain's transition involved a new generation fascinated by modernity and new ideas, which arrived via artists in diverse domains: music, fashion, cinema, painting, and photography.
La Movida was a highly publicized phenomenon from the beginning, one that established a myth. Perhaps the allure of the Madrid Movida, as some of its leading figures...
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Maia Flore
Harmonies
Festival Photo La Gacilly
Le Grand Chêne
56204 La Gacilly (FRANCE)
+ 33 2 99 08 68 00
From 2019-06-01 to 2019-09-30
« Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. By quoting Edgar Allan Poe to present her Sleep Elevation series, photographer Maia Flore, member of VU', lays her cards on the table. She could also have quoted Lewis Caroll, as her images displayed in this selection are imbued with poetry and fantasy.
Especially trained at the prestigious Gobelins School of Paris, she combines photography and her mastery of editing to create bridges between real and imaginary. Soothing images of floating bodies through the sky, as feathers taking us through the looking glass.
A style exercise about...
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Ad Van Denderen
WELKOM TODAY
Stedelijk Museum
Museumplein 10
1071 DJ Amsterdam (NETHERLANDS)
From 2019-05-18 to 2019-10-13
25 years after Nelson Mandela was elected president, Van Denderen and Tlali present a critical sequel to the highly-praised photo book Welkom in Suid-Afrika (1991) in which van Denderen chronicled apartheid's final days in the gold mining town of Welkom. Welkom Today combines old and new photos by Van Denderen and Tlali with photos taken by students, family albums, newspaper archives and stories by writer Margalith Kleijwegt. The exhibition is part of a multi-part photography project, produced by Paradox, the platform for documentary projects.
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Ouka Leele
Peluqueria
Plage de Houlgate
Promenade Roland Garros, sur la digue le long de la plage
14510 Houlgate (FRANCE)
From 2019-06-07 to 2019-08-31
Within the scope of the Houlgate Photo Festival, open the doors of photographer Ouka Leele's very special hairstyling salon. Colorful and exuberant portraits are displayed. They underline a desire for provocation, for transforming the world, for accepting a kind of bad taste to conventions, which is characteristic of movida vital excesses from a youth asserting their need for freedom (
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(Christian Caujolle, Ouka Leele, Obra Social Cajo de Madrid, 1997).
Photo : © Ouka Leele / VU'
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Laerke Posselt
Q* the queer project
Vandrehallen Hillerød Bibliotek
Christiansgade 1
3400 Hillerød (DENMARK)
From 2019-06-27 to 2019-09-15
Laerke Posselt's series of portraits "Q* the queer project", questions the notion of identity and gender, and the aesthetic expectations that are traditionally associated with it.
By using the classical photographic portraiture system to represent people who defy the normative visual codes of the feminine and the masculine, she invites critical reflection on the binarity of the classical and gendered vision of the world.
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