Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo
Born 1983 in Santiago, Chile. Lives and works between Arles, France, and London, England.
Artist, researcher and publisher Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo holds a PhD in photography from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles. After a year at the National School of Art in Johannesburg (NSA), he earned a photography degree in Chile and completed his MFA at the Villa Arson in Nice. He has curated the exhibitions Mapuche at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris and Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation at the Rencontres d’Arles. He has been invited to teach at various schools and institutions, including Parsons Paris, ISSP and Atelier Noua. He also collaborated in ‘1000words’ and co-founded ‘doubledummy’, a platform of critical reflection about documentary photography.
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Events
6 July
MERCREDI DE L'ANTHROPOCÈNE
Recording
This show prompts us to think about our profoundly changing era. Guests discuss the issues and put forward solutions. Its subject is the two clashing world views in Mapuche territory brought to light by Ritual Inhabitual’s photographic investigation Geometric Forests. Struggles on Mapuche land, with curator Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo, Florencia Grisanti and Tito González García, founders of the Ritual Inhabitual collective.
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Chapelle Saint-Martin du Méjan
7 July
PANEL DISCUSSION BREAKFAST
GEOMETRICAL FORESTS. STRUGGLES EN MAPUCHE LAND
Meeting
Panel discussion followed by a signing with Tito González García, filmmaker, video maker and photographer, and Florencia Grisanti, artist and taxidermist, founders of the collective Ritual Inhabitual, as well as Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo, curator of the exhibition and artist.
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Croisière
7 July
YOU ARE HERE… OR AREN'T YOU? RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND PRACTICE
Conference
Talk, followed by round tables, with Luis Camnitzer, Michèle Bergot, Grégory Chatonsky, Alejandro Erbetta, Nina Ferrer-Gleize, Véronique Figini-Véron, Marta Gili, Nicolas Giraud, Arno Gisinger, Anne Lacoste, Alejandro Leon-Cannock, Sarah Ritter, Stéphanie Solinas, Véronique Terrier Hermann, Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo and Ana Vaz.
An afternoon of conversations, organized as part of the 40th anniversary of the ENSP, bringing together artists, educators and researchers to discuss the interactions between artistic education, professionalization, the economics and the politics of images with the participation of the Louis-Lumière School in Paris, the Arts Faculty of Paris 8 University, the Institute for Photography Hauts-de-France in Lille, and with the support from Rencontres d’Arles.
An afternoon of conversations, organized as part of the 40th anniversary of the ENSP, bringing together artists, educators and researchers to discuss the interactions between artistic education, professionalization, the economics and the politics of images with the participation of the Louis-Lumière School in Paris, the Arts Faculty of Paris 8 University, the Institute for Photography Hauts-de-France in Lille, and with the support from Rencontres d’Arles.
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École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie
8 July
GEOMETRIC FORESTS. STRUGGLES ON MAPUCHE LAND
Exhibition tour
By curator Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo with the artists in attendance.
Subject to availability.
Subject to availability.
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Chapelle Saint-Martin du Méjan
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