The ‘System Echoes’ exhibition program focuses in 2021 : “...on the uncertain, changing living world. A living world intertwined in striking and unique territorial contexts. The artists’ various approaches immerse us in current issues involving migration, memory, feminism or even decolonialism.” More than 60 artists in 15 exhibitions - still on display in the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation through 26 September, 2021 “as part of the associated Rencontres program.” Artistic Director is Florent Basiletti.
With works by : Mathias Benguigui, Jean Christian Bourcart, Jérôme Cortie, Hoël Duret, Alberto Giuliani, Elsa Leydier, Philip Montgomery, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Niina Vatanen, Anno Wilms, Barbara Wolff, the LesAssociés collective, and CHAUSSEE 36 as well as works from the Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC) collection.
Jean-Christian Bourcart presents his new work ‘At the Edge of Reality’. The French photographer and filmmaker shows peculiar, hallucinatory and ghost-like characters who break into the photo archive of a small Breton village…
The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film is a non-profit foundation incorporated in 2010 by documentary photographer Manuel Rivera-Ortiz with headquarters in Rochester, New York and branches in Paris and Zurich. GoSee : mrofoundation.org & rencontres-arles.com/en