Edition 2019

EVANGELIA KRANIOTI

THE LIVING, THE DEAD AND THOSE AT SEA

Evangelia Kranioti explores the borderlines of the world and captures individual destinies caught in the net of Man’s trade. Cargo ports, highways, the backstage of a carnival, graveyards, war ruins: settings of both ceaseless transit and immobilized lives, nailed to the ground or anchored at sea. In her project “Exotica, Erotica, Etc.“, long-distance sailors await the next stopover, longing to form temporary and priced loves. In “Obscuro Barroco“, the urban queer scene unfolds in Rio de Janeiro, a vertiginous territory of gender and metamorphosis. In “Beirut Fictions“, African and Asian maids are confined to a foreign country, Lebanon, with no hope of integration. Finally, in “Era Incognita“, it is the living who migrate to the home of the dead, in Cairo’s necropolis, driven by the housing crisis in Egypt. In the heart of her work, faces and bodies meet and reflect each other across the oceans. Thus, Kranioti weaves the cartography of a vulnerable and marginalized group that she places at the center: the fresco of a community of outsiders which transcends the borders of the Mediterranean, matrix of exiles.

Léandre Bernard-Brunel

CURATED BY MATTHIEU ORLÉAN
 
Prints by Picto, Paris. Framing by Circad, Paris.
With support from the Sator gallery and Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie, Toulouse.

LOCATION: JIMEI CITIZEN SQUARE MAIN EXHIBITION HALL

  • 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