EXHIBITION - VISIONS - THEIR EYES

Three exhibitions as part of the Year of Photography:

Photography will soon be two hundred years old, two centuries during which it has shaped our way of apprehending and understanding the world. Although it does not fall into the traditional categories of the fine arts, its legitimacy as an art form is no longer in question. Photography is just as capable of expressing beauty as drawing or painting.
Without waiting for an official commemoration date, photography in all its manifestations and forms is celebrated in Nancy during a rich and multifaceted "photographic year", starting in May 2024. It will conclude in June 2025, with the Événement photographique.

THEIR PERSPECTIVES
Contemporary photography in Eastern France

Madeleine Millot-Durrenberger's collection, which began by chance in the early 1980s and has continued to develop with method and patience, is today a remarkably rich and coherent whole. Known to artists, critics and curators alike, her passion and the finesse of her choices have made her a discreet but ever-present figure on the French photographic scene.

By inviting her to design a presentation based solely on geographical criteria, the museum is challenging her: what might the photographic scene in Eastern France look like today? And is there one? As she wryly notes, "the East is much further from Paris than Paris is from the East"... Madeleine Millot-Durrenberger has plunged into her beloved works with great enthusiasm, making new encounters and concretizing links that had not yet come to fruition, to offer the public in Nancy her vision of the photographic "hic et nunc" of our region.

"Leurs regards" invites us to discover singular universes and introduces us to original artistic personalities. By comparing and sometimes contrasting the work of different artists, the collector shares her meditations on the material of images, on abstraction, and on the necessary recomposition of the world that she believes all good photography should be.

Works by Eric Poitevin, Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand, Vincent Chevillon, Valérie Graftieaux, Sascha Normeyer, Alain Willaume, William Ropp, Marion Galut, François Saur, Christophe Bourgeois, Hervé Bohnert, Éric Antoine, Philippe Lepeut, Silvi Simo.

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