International Photography 8 March to 31 May 2014
NIORT
NIORT
20th Encounters of Young
20th Encounters of Young
International Photography 13 artists including 8 international artists invited for the creative residency
7 exhibition spaces 2 workshops and some theatre…
The days of the Encounters 18 April and
19 April
1 >> CACP-Villa Pérochon FRANÇOISE HUGUIER
2 >> Pavillon Grappelli 8 artists in residence
3 >> Belvédère du Moulin du Roc Diane Arques
4 >> Collège Rabelais Diane Arques
5 >> Espace d’arts visuels le Pilori Alexandra Pouzet
6 >> Conseil général des Deux-Sèvres Élodie Guignard
7 >> Espace d’exposition Librairie des Halles Carol Müller
8 >> Le patronage laïque Eux sur la photo, Theatre play CACP-Villa Pérochon 1
DATES TO NOTE Saturday 5 April
10 h 30
Pavillon Grappelli 2 For all those who wish to meet, accompany, and support the artists in residence during their stay in Niort.
The days of the Encounters Friday 18 April
Saturday 19 April
4.00 p.m.
Collège Rabelais 4 Diane Arques presents her exhibition Play Again.
5.15 p.m.
Conseil général des Deux-Sèvres 6 Élodie Guignard presents her exhibition Les Magnifiques with toast to friendship offered by the Conseil général.
6.30 p.m.
Pavillon Grappelli 2 Presentation of the opening exhibition of the eight artists in residence.
8.30 p.m.
Le patronage laïque 8 Eux sur la photo, theatre play.
10.30 a.m
Belvédère du Moulin du Roc 3 Diane Arques presents her exhibition La Ville Bleue.
11.15 a.m.
Espace d’exposition Librairie des Halles 7 Carol Müller presents her exhibition Lectrices.
12.30 p.m. CACP-Villa Pérochon 1 Françoise Huguier presents Vertical/Horizontal, Interior/Exterior – Singapore – Kuala Lumpur – Bangkok, "Middle Classes" in South-East Asia, and K-Pop. Official speeches followed by a buffet in the garden. Meeting and exchanges with Françoise Huguier, who will dedicate her books.
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Espace d’arts visuels le Pilori 5 Alexandra Pouzet presents Nature humaine.
7.00 p.m.
Pavillon Grappelli 2 Opening of the exhibition of works created during the residency. Party evening.
20th Encounters of Young International Photography
Intro
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his year we are set for a real festival of exhibitions and encounters, with a route to follow round the town, new spaces, and a programme brimming with the colours of youth and emerging photography. Our partnerships have been renewed, strengthened, and supplemented, and we warmly thank all involved. We have some great discoveries to share, and much diversity. And in addition, it is with immense pleasure that we are to welcome Françoise Huguier to spend two weeks with us in Niort. Aged from 20 to 34, coming from Cologne or Jakarta by way of Vienna and Barcelona, the artists selected from among the 162 applications received for the creative residency will have the privilege of being accompanied by this exceptional artist – exceptional through the diversity of subjects that she treats, whether social, cultural, or introspective, as well as fashion, and of which the common thread, to my mind, is commitment. When I invited her to participate again – for indeed, in 1999 she had already accompanied us in our adventure of what was then the European Photographic Encounters – she was once more enthusiastic at the idea of sharing her knowledge and meeting young artists. Her eagerness to establish new friendships with young creators stems in part from the fact that the links developed in 1999 have remained intact to this day. Around her, the eight artists invited for the residency will doubtless enrich their respective approaches and techniques, while experimenting and showing to the public, yet again this year, a range of the most diverse and singular artistic and photographic practices. Around this laboratory of experimentation, true to our policy of supporting young emerging artists, we are to present four additional exhibitions. We invite you to join us on this new phase, following that of last year's opening of the Centre of Contemporary Photographic Art - Villa Pérochon, with this itinerary to follow around the town to discover new spaces and, above all, new propositions, including expositions, workshops, and even theatre! Patrick Delat Director, CACP-Villa Pérochon
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Guest of honour
FRANÇOISE HUGUIER www.francoisehuguier.com
CACP-Villa Pérochon 64 rue Paul-François Proust
8 March to 31 May From Tuesday to Saturday, 1.30 to 6.30 p.m.
Vertical/Horizontal, Interior/Exterior Singapore – Kuala Lumpur – Bangkok, "Middle Classes" in South-East Asia This is a large-scale project that I began in Singapore a year ago and one that I have never ceased to feel passionate about from the start. It is a study from the inside of the middle classes of three capitals in South-East Asia, namely Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, all qualifying as modern, but of which little is said, or not well. Why the middle class? Because it is the majority and it is the cement of these multicultural and multi-ethnic societies given the history of these three countries. I seek out these men and women who contribute to the process of modernisation that is transforming the whole of South-East Asia, and who are also benefiting from it. My approach has never varied since I first took a camera in my hands: to carry out an exploration without exoticism, an exploration that requires time, developing a patient and curious eye, above all without empathy, which would be meaningless here. This long-term work is a project for the future, a work of memory rooted in the present, a view for future usage. FRANÇOISE HUGUIER
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KPOP K-POP is originally a Korean musical genre that derived from popular Korean music and British and American pop. In the 1990s, entertainment companies launched the first girls and boys bands. The K-POP phenomenon rapidly conquered the young generations of SouthEast Asia. During concerts, the young groups set off hysteria among the teenagers. The protagonists of the boys or girls bands are pure beauties. Sex, drugs, and deviance are never mentioned. The music is catchy and gets people dancing. K-POP culture has been around in Malaysia since the late 2000s. K-POP is above all a musical genre, but also a "way of life" and, especially, of dressing. Numerous young Malaysians (high school pupils and students) dress like their idols. Flash mobs (dance performances uniting dozens of teens in the streets or shopping centres and scrupulously filmed) are organised. Shops are specialised in the sale of accessories, dresses, and shirts that are identical to those worn by the young singers. Fans love to get together after school and at weekends in the shopping centres of Kuala Lumpur such as the "Time Square Shopping Mall". This phenomenon has become a huge business. The K-POP craze has contributed to acculturation and the cult of appearance and the ephemeral. FRANÇOISE HUGUIER
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PHOTOGRAPHERS IN RESIDENCE
Pavillon Grappelli 56 rue Saint-Jean
8 March to 31 May From Tuesday to Saturday, 1.30 to 6.30 p.m.
CLARA CHICHIN CÉDRIC FRIGGERI CYRIL GALMICHE PAULINE HISBACQ GONTUNG GEORGE MANDAGIE This exhibition takes place over two periods: from 8 March to 18 April, the works that were presented to the selection jury; from 19 April to 31 May, the works created during the residency in Niort. Performance: Members of the public will be able to see both exhibitions over the two days of 18 and 19 April (taking down and hanging during the night of 18 to 19 April!)
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CLARA CHICHIN Montreuil – France www.clarachichin.blogspot.fr
Clara Chichin was born in 1985, and lives and works in the Paris region. After university studies in arts, literature, and contemporary thought at the University of Paris VII, she graduated from ENSBA in 2012. She has already exhibited her works in Marseille (Nuit de l’instant), at the Point Éphémère in Paris, in Berlin with Temps Zero, in Photo Phnom Penh in 2011, etc.
Clara Chichin creates photographs that are dense and contrasty, with which she associates fragments of text recalling lived moments. Clara Chichin's images are produced in a wide range of forms as varied as books, video, or projections, thus amounting to the assembling and editing of iconographic material put together over time, from a process of sequencing out of which there emerges the possibility of a fiction. Extract from a text by RAPHAËL BRUNEL journalist, critic, and curator
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CÉDRIC FRIGGERI Bruguières – France www.cedricfriggeri.net Cédric Friggeri is 35 and lives and works between Toulouse and Paris. He has spent time over several periods in Spain and Argentina since 2004. Self-taught, he has been devoted entirely to photography since 2005. He founded the collective Du Grain à Moudre in 2007 with David Ameye, Arno Brignon and Julien Pebrel. In 2012 he exhibited at the itinerant festival of travelling photographers of Bordeaux as well as at the Vertmeilleux Festival in Cailhau, after participating over the previous years in Manifesto in Toulouse at the Mediterranean Centre of the Image, in Brussels, Lyon, at the Transphotographiques of Lille, etc.
It is very hard for me to try to explain what pushes me to make photographs and I always have the feeling of coming out with one commonplace statement after another. My approach is that of someone trying to find their place, never sure of anything. I photograph to tell, and out of fear of forgetting.
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CYRIL GALMICHE Paris – France www.cyrilgalmiche.com
He lives and works in Paris. Cyril Galmiche is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated from the Higher School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg.
He develops concepts of ubiquitous, non-narration, and distancing in his practice of video and photography. In each of his projects, he decomposes then re-composes urban space with different times and spaces. In 2012, he spent a year in China to create Trajectory and Ubiquitous Portrait in the course of two artistic residencies (AM Art Space and Swatch Art Peace Hotel).
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PAULINE HISBACQ Paris – France www.paulinehisbacq.com
Pauline Hisbacq, who was born in 1980, graduated from ENSP in Arles in 2011, before going on to post-graduate studies at ICP in New York. She currently lives and works in Paris. She exhibited at Photo Phnom Penh and at the 56th International Salon of Montrouge in 2011 and at the Nuit de l’Instant in Marseille in 2013.
Adolescence is a central theme in my work. It is the subject of an intimate documentary or fictional exploration. Treated as a poetic motif, it also opens up to a world between nostalgia and fantasy. Questions relating to the body and desire, or beyond these, rites of passage or particular mythologies are also basic preoccupations in my work.
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GONTUNG GEORGE MANDAGIE Jakarta – Indonesia
George Mandagie, who is 23, was born in Indonesia and lives in Jakarta. He studied cinema at the The Next/SAE Institute of Sound Engineering, and photography at the Loop Academy in Jakarta.
With our warm thanks to The French Institute of Indonesia.
He presents colour photographs that are mostly created at night and whose subject is the street life and its traffic jams in Jakarta. His photographs play on artificial lighting, the graphic aspects of cars, motorbikes, and pedestrians, all in a highly cinematographic style, using association images in diptychs or multiple groups.
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MAFALDA RAKOS Vienne – Autriche www.mafaldarakos.com
Mafalda Rakos was born in 1994 in Vienna, Austria. After graduating from the Higher School of Media and Technology Studies in 2013, she enrolled for anthropological studies at the University of Vienna, while continuing her own photographic projects.
Her budding career in photography is centred on social and documentary photography. She has already completed several projects in Vienna, Senegal, Palestine, and Israel. She presented her work at the Encontros Da Imagem Festival at Braga in Portugal in 2012. She was nominated for the Prix Voies Off in Arles and was awarded the Prix de la SAIF in 2013. Her subject of predilection is the human environment, and in keeping with her age, she has questioned young people met during her travels in Senegal, in Vienna, and simultaneously in Palestine and Israel. 12
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DANA STÖLZGEN Cologne – Allemagne www.danastoelzgen.de
Dana Stölzgen was born in 1979, and lives in Cologne. In Niort, she is presenting her work "Yonder" and a series composed of images of women and still lives.
For Dana, photography is a means for poetic research. She collects and arranges fragments of reality to create an intimate view in a world of ephemera
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RAÚL VALERO LÓPEZ Baléares – Espagne www.raulvalerophotography.com
Raúl Valero López was born in 1986 in Palma de Mallorca, and studied economics and photography in Barcelona.
Raúl Valero López shows the lives of marginal people, life's casualties. In the form of intimate reportage, he presents photographs in colour and black-and-white, without preference, with the sole intention of drawing up a broad portrait of the intimacy of the encountered subjects. It is an approach that is both raw and respectful, sign of the total trust earned and his complete immersion in their world.
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Around the residency DIANE ARQUES La ville bleue (Blue Town) Play again
ALEXANDRA POUZET Nature humaine (Human Nature) (Collection du Frac Poitou-Charentes) (Collection of Frac Poitou-Charentes)
ÉLODIE GUIGNARD Les Magnifiques
CAROL MÜLLER Lectrices (Readers)
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DIANE ARQUES www.dianearques.com
Belvédère du Moulin du Roc 9 boulevard Main
8 March to 31 May
La ville bleue (Blue Town)
Open Wednesday and Friday from 1.30 to 6.30 p.m., Saturday from 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and 1.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. She studied at the Higher National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, before obtaining a Master's degree in photography and contemporary art at the University of Paris VIII. She began exhibiting her production in 2008 at Photoquai in Paris, then in 2011 she won first prize in the Réponses Photos contest at the Rencontres d’Arles and first prize in Photographie Solidaire with Play Again. In 2013, she presented La Ville bleue at the Arts Sans Frontière space in Paris and at the Parcours Photographique in Vouvant, and with Play Again she was selected for the Photo Ireland festival in Dublin.
In the beginning, two decisive factors. First of all, the lessons of Jean-François Chevrier at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, which prompted me to reflect on "The Painter of Modern Life" (Baudelaire – 1863) today. Then some personal reflection: how to get as close as possible to what I know to photograph and film it. The project started with videos made with a quite simple mobile phone and recorded at the main intersections of the Parisian metro: the city in the digital era, the era of information flows. The protocol was to be invisible in the labyrinths, sometimes for hours,against a wall, solely to catch a sketch of movement, of figures, silhouettes, backs. The chosen corridors and walls were to include no advertising poster. Then from these recordings, I made initial attempts at photographic diptychs… The metro is a subject that has been covered by great photographers (Walker Evans, Luc Delahaye, etc.) and the fascination for this underground space is understandable. I have been diving down into it so often and for so many years that it has become an constitutive motif of my imagination; every day in the Paris metro, so close to those passengers I do not talk to and who do not talk to me, me close to them, and they close to me, I look attentively at their faces, their backs, their way of walking. I merged into the background, posted at the main axes of this labyrinth, armed with a discrete mobile phone, in order to capture their movements and reveal – render visible – their presences… Photographic, video, and sound installation. Digital prints on 157x137 format poster paper. Loop video 1’ 10” 16
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Collège Rabelais 107 route de Coulonges
10 March to 31 May Play again
From Monday to Friday, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m., Wednesday From 9.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Closed during school holidays
The series "Play Again" presents portraits of children and teens aged from four to eighteen playing video games - I wanted to highlight their concentration and their ability to be absorbed… Concentrating at first on the eyes of the player, then on their hands, I chose to make portraits in the form of two distinct photos that could be brought together in the form of a diptych, a way of showing the tension between addiction to video games and resisting this to devote time to homework or preparing for exams. The body is framed quite tightly to recreate the effect of immersion in the game, which is out of the frame and not visible. The approach was to photograph the young player at home, in a familiar space where the body could very quickly adopt familiar poses and attitudes. I asked each of them to choose a game that enthrals them. Before the start of the photo shoot, lasting about an hour, I presented the series on paper and the photographic means: a computer linked to a camera. Then we started the game session, each absorbed and concentrated in front of a screen.
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ALEXANDRA POUZET www.alexandrapouzet.com
Espace d’arts visuels le Pilori Nature humaine place Mathurin Berthomé
25 March to 26 April (Human Nature)
(Collection of the FRAC Poitou-Charentes)
From Tuesday to Saturday, 1 to 7.30 p.m.
Born in 1975, Alexandra Pouzet, lives and works in Poitiers. Her work is based around problems linked to the body, identity, and the space that links them. She has exhibited her work in France since 2004: Limoges – L’œil écoute; Lorient – Gallery Le Lieu; Lille – Transphotographiques; La Rochelle – Carré Amelot; Paris Galerie l’Usine, etc. and abroad: Braga, Rome, Geneva, etc.
Nature Humaine is a sort of cabinet of curiosities, a chamber of wonders. Fragments of nature and bodies come together in a kind of indecisiveness between real and imaginary, true and false, trivial and precious, magic and human. Bodies that are travestied, performed, landscapes in theatres, knocked-up nature, what is living appears in this photographic series as the place of all constructions, all creations. Beyond these cultivated differences or exacerbated appearances, there lie the profound and persistent signs of humanity, and of what you are too, and of the way you look at the world.
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ÉLODIE GUIGNARD
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Conseil général des Deux-Sèvres Mail Lucie Aubrac et bâtiment Ernest Pérochon
Les Magnifiques15 March to 30 April Free entry from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. After studies in modern letters, Élodie Guignard went on in 2004 to obtain her diploma from the Higher National School of Photography in Arles with honours. Since then, her work was recognised in 2005 by the Bourse du Talent organised by photographie.com, and in 2006 by the Prix de la Biennale of Conches-en-Ouches (portrait) and the same year she obtained a Déclics Jeunes grant from the Fondation de France for a suject in India. She exhibited Le village de L’Aurore at the Carré d’art in Chartres-de-Bretagne in 2009, and at the Impression gallery in Paris in 2010. In 2012 she created a series of portraits entitled Les Magnifiques among the Emmaüs community of Peupins in the north of the Deux-Sèvres region, subsequently published with a preface by Martin Hirsch. This is the subject that we are to present.
From the other side of the optical mirror: genre scenes. When choreography is interpreted accurately and sincerely, it earns by itself the onlooker's respect. Such is the case of the photography of Élodie Guignard. For the photographer, encountering another is the pretext for recounting, without ever over-playing, genre scenes that she composes in the heart of nature. In the eye of the light, she tames the frame, the attitude, the pause… She takes the time to shoot, to catch on a tripod, the smile of a letting go and the confident body of an interior face. Like Alice in Wonderland, suspended in the time of the Rabbit of Garennes, Élodie slips her lens into the refuges of the ego. She sublimates the art of the portrait that she directs from the other side of the optical mirror. She diverts, with modesty, the shams of appearance, revealing the putting into space of an artistic portrait that she describes as "offbeat and fun". Make no mistake, the photographs of Élodie Guignard need us to spend time on them. They are not what we think we see in passing too fast. Aesthetic through high standards, but never aestheticised. If the glazes are refined, in homage to easel painting, they are never glossy paper, but rather rag paper, vibrant with the little imperfections and defects of the flesh. Élodie Guignard knows how to reveal the beauty of the being in its secret, most human dimension through the pleasure of the game with the "I". In the balance of a square format, these are all small grains of sand she shifts to tip a universe that is too smooth in appearance over into the unspeakable thickness of the paradoxical being. CHRISTINE BARBEDET CACP-Villa Pérochon 19
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CAROL MÜLLER www.carolmuller.fr
Exhibition space Librairie des Halles 1 bis rue de l’Hôtel de Ville
12 April to 10 May
Lectrices (Readers)
Carol Müller obtained a Masters degree in arts in Strasbourg, and studied graphic arts at the school of multimedia and photography in Paris where she currently lives and works. Polymorphous artist, Carol Müller explored the routes of performance and installation before devoting herself more especially to photography and drawing. Her work ceaselessly coming back to the notion of landscape – extended landscape, mental landscape – attempts to develop some slow understanding of the real. It seeks to touch the space of the poem, and through the simplest, most stripped expression to renew with the act of contemplating.
"Women who read are dangerous" is the title of the book by Laure Adler that inspired this project. Women have to be pleasing and raise children. For them, reading is not only not necessary but is dangerous. It opens the doors of their imagination, gives them freedom of thinking and ideas that prompt them to break from decorum and social rules to live as they wish. It makes them compete with men. Reading as conquest, conquest of liberty. It is with this idea in mind that I decided to meet women whose relationship with reading and with the book as object structures their horizon of life. I wanted to introduce myself into this moment of knowledge and abandonment to interior voyage through a discreet presence, as unobtrusive as possible. For this I chose to settle myself, with them, over the prolonged exposure time of 10 to 20 minutes and to operate by means of an uncertain camera without a lens – and so without any decision of focal length – the antique stenotype. It is less like making the portrait of a woman than touching the atmosphere of her act of reading, creating a trace of time.
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Theatre
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Le patronage laïque 40 rue de la Terraudière
Eux sur la photo
Friday 18 April 8.30 p.m. Based on the novel by Hélène Gestern (Cezam inter-Ce literary prize, 2013) A production of the Scène nationale d’Évreux/Louviers With: Delphine Lainé, actress, Benoit Mochot, actor, Pierre Carniaux, actor and director Pascal Messer, lighting Price: 15 euros or 12 euros (Members of Cezam / Pour l’Instant) Information and reservations: Cezam Poitou-Charentes/Credes 05 49 79 35 28 Or CACP-Villa Pérochon 05 49 24 58 18
An unusual programme for a photographic manifestation! It is the story of a meeting between Delphine Lainé and the Villa Pérochon during the awarding of the Cezam literary prize at the Centre of Contemporary Photographic Art. To create this theatre adaptation of the novel by Hélène Gestern Eux sur la Photo (Them in the Photo), the actress Delphine Lainé plunged into the photographic universe of Françoise Huguier: Kommunalka. It seemed obvious… we had to propose this show to you, also a way of bringing together two audiences: that of theatre and that of photographic galleries. There are only points in common between these artistic universes: framing and arranging, the question of light, point of view… etc. A photo, a small ad in a paper, are the starting points of this breathlessly moving sentimental enquiry around a family secret. Eux sur la Photo is the quest led by Hélène and her letter-writing correspondent, a search for her roots, for truth buried too long… What are they to find out? Are they going to accept it, and assimilate it, to finally know each other better? Is the image they have of themselves and their families not going to be overturned? Revelations, joys, struggles, stories of love past and to come, punctuate this enthralling story, adapted from the book by Hélène Gestern. CACP-Villa Pérochon 21
Workshops XAVIER LAMBOURS www.xavierlambours.com
The Portrait 21, 22 and 23 March The Nouvelle(s) Scène(s) festival presents emerging groups of current music. Several concerts of small formations, solo or duo, almost entirely acoustic, are to be held on March 20, 21 and 22 at the heart of the exhibitions in the Pavillon Grappelli, the visual arts space the Pilori, and in the garden of the Villa Pérochon. On this occasion, we propose a workshop led by Xavier Lambours linked to the practice of portrait photography, to be held in the context of a festive and musical event. Participants will have privileged access to rehearsals, back stage, concerts, and "afters", in order to photograph not only the artists, but also technicians, the public, etc.
DIANE ARQUES www.dianearques.com
The mobile phone, a creative tool? 12 April The TAKAVOIR Festival of films made with a mobile phone will take place over the weekend of 12 April, right in the middle of the residency. On this occasion we are proposing a workshop questioning the possibility of an artistic photographic approach linked to use of a mobile phone. Diane Arquès, in view of her exhibition "La Ville Bleue" presented at the Belvédère du Moulin du Roc will be leading this workshop.
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VILLA PÉROCHON CENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN PHOTOGRAPHIQUE NIORT Based in the former residence of writer Ernest Pérochon (Goncourt Literary Prize winner in 1920), in the town centre of Niort, a short walk from the station and close to the Agesci Museum, the gallery of the Villa Pérochon provides 100 linear metre of wall space. It is accessed through an extensive high-walled garden of 1000 square metres, which itself amounts to a true open air gallery. As permanent space for the exhibition of photographic imagery, the Villa Pérochon is to base its schedule around contemporary photography with the emphasis on emerging artists. Two events punctuate this annual programme: The yearly highpoint, the Encounters of Young International Photography, brings together in the springtime, during the first half of April, 8 young artists of various nationalities around a leading name in international photography. In 2014, Françoise Huguier is the guest of honour who is to present a rich programme of exhibitions. The works created over the years have made it possible to constitute today a collection of 1,600 pieces. And then, every summer, there is the event of the Summer at the Villa. This year, we are presenting the works of François Méchain, including one to be created in Niort in June, as part of the Téciverdi festival.
As part of our policy of supporting young creators, we are inviting Nadège Abadie and Alexandra Pouzet in residence. With a view to providing greater access to a broader public, entry to all exhibitions is to be free of charge. Guided visits can be arranged, and actions aimed at understanding of and education in the image are offered to school groups, socio-cultural centres, hospital services, etc. To complete this policy, a programme of training courses is proposed in photographic techniques for beginners and advanced users, and the understanding and analysis of the image.
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The CACP–Villa Pérochon is backed by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication – DRAC Poitou- Charentes, the Town of Niort and the Conseil Régional Poitou-Charentes. It receives aid from the Conseil Général des Deux-Sèvres, the Avis car hire company, and the Nouvelle République du Centre Ouest. The CACP–Villa Pérochon is one of the founding members of the national network "Diagonal", which groups around twenty actors in photography in France. It is a member of the Cartel network (structures of contemporary art in Poitou-Charentes).
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Maquette : Michel Paradinas
Associated partners
contacts NIORT
Upon reservation, free guided visits can be provided for any group of at least five people (contact Jean-Luc Fouet)
(accueil public) 64 rue Paul-François Proust BP 59135 – 79061 Niort Cedex 9 – France Tél. : 05 49 24 58 18
[email protected] www.cacp-villaperochon.com
