Edition 2019

CÉDRIC BACQUEVILLE GALLERY, LILLE, FRANCE

DAVID DE BEYTER

THE SKEPTICS, RELICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL GODDESS

The Skeptics, Relics of Technological Goddess is a work in progress combining film, photography and objects. It is about scientific ufology, a discipline based on ufology practiced by a marginal community of around a hundred passionate amateurs in Spain. The beauty of their approach to reality and perception lies in a utopian desire to dispel the modern myth of UFOs. In the aesthetics of the disappearance and blindness of images, photography and its physicality become an object of speculation, serving here to deconstruct a great contemporary narrative. By its documentary, sociological and reflexive approach to the image, The Skeptics is to be understood as an immersive space prompting us to meditate on the obsolescence of a belief. These odd landscapes, obsolete thoughts and outmoded scientific tools are relics of an imaginary world in ruins that reflect the mood of our post-truth times.

Exhibition curators: Anna Planas and Pierre Hourquet.

  • Institutional partners

    • République Française
    • Région Provence Alpes Côté d'Azur
    • Département des Bouches du Rhône
    • Arles
    • Le Centre des monuments nationaux est heureux de soutenir les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles en accueillant des expositions dans l’abbaye de Montmajour
  • Main partners

    • Fondation LUMA
    • BMW
    • SNCF
    • Kering
  • Media partners

    • Arte
    • Lci
    • Konbini
    • Le Point
    • Madame Figaro
    • France Culture