ARLES 2021 MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE MINISTÈRE DE DE L’ÉDUCATION NATIONALE, DE LA JEUNESSE ET DES SPORTS DIRECTION RÉGIONALE DES AFFAIRES CULTURELLES PACA LES RENCONTRES RÉGION PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D’AZUR DÉPARTEMENT DES BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE VILLE D’ARLES PHOTOGRAPH (DETAIL): SMITH, DESIDERATION, 2000-2021. COURTESY LES FILLES DU CALVAIRE GALLERY. 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COLLECTION LAMBERT AVIGNON, FRAC PACA, MUCEM, CENTRE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE MARSEILLE, MUSÉE ESTRINE, CENTRE DE SUPPORT FROM LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE MOUGINS, ASSOCIATION JEAN VILAR. CONFÉDÉRATION SUISSE, ÉDITIONS LOUIS VUITTON, DUPON-RC GROUP, SWISS ARTS COUNCIL PRO HELVETIA, FONDATION SWISS LIFE, MALONGO, CHAMMAS & MARCHETEAU, RIVEDROIT AVOCATS, HAHNEMÜHLE FINEART, VII ACADEMY, FLUXUS ART PROJECTS, JEAN-FRANÇOIS DUBOS, POLKA, FISHEYE, LIBÉRATION, VICE, AMA, BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, LOUIE MEDIA, FUJIFILM, MÉTROBUS, PICTO FOUNDATION, PROCESSUS, CIRCAD, DEUXIÈME ŒIL, ATELIER SHL & GAMBIER, ANITA SAXENA INTERPRÉTARIAT. WORD FROM THE MINISTER Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin Minister of Culture The Rencontres d’Arles is an indispensable event for photography in France and abroad. Although last year’s festival could not be held, to pay tribute to the artists, the festival and its partners joined forces to ensure that the prizes for 2020 be awarded (Women In Motion – Kering, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award…). I am also delighted that multiple exhibitions from 2020’s program have found a place at the festival in 2021. In a few months, we all hope, this unique event on the art of photography will begin. This year’s festival features around twenty exhibitions in Arles, and several other sites associated with the festival in the region, as part of Grand Arles Express, including Mucem, FRAC PACA, Collection Lambert, and Centre Photographique Marseille. In his first official year as festival director, Christoph Wiesner has chosen to emphasize emerging artists. The 2021 Louis Roederer Discovery Award will be showcased in particular, with Sonia Voss as curator and Amanda Antunes for scenography. The festival also reflects the social changes that photography is continually attesting to, featuring, notably, a section on the topics of gender and identity. With emerging scenes, large group exhibitions, powerful themes, established artists and artists from around the globe figuring prominently, the festival is undeniably a major event in photography. The Ministry of Culture backs the Rencontres d’Arles with energy, pride, and conviction. With that, I’d like to wish every success to the 52nd year of the Rencontres d’Arles, and thank everyone on the team for their tenacity and passionate defense of photographers and photography. 3 WORD FROM THE MAYOR Patrick de Carolis Mayor of Arles “How good it is to steer forever towards desire” are the ones to inherit this exceptional legacy, Frédéric Mistral justly wrote. After long months, and those that take in photography in all its forms. so hard and so deprived of cultural exchange and Likewise, the Rencontres d’Arles is both founder artistic emotion, it is equally right to express how and heir. It has shown work by photography’s eagerly we await the Rencontres d’Arles 2021. pioneers, preserved, notably, in the magnificent This year’s festival is unique because it celebrates collection at the Musée Réattu constituted two different legacies: one of monuments conceded by Jean-Maurice Rouquette and Lucien Clergue. by UNESCO forty years ago, and one of photography, It has also articulated new trends and new, even now an integral part of Arles’ heritage. These two unconventional perspectives by presenting artistic legacies mirror each other as our monuments host creation, enquiry and testimony to the public. festival exhibitions, lending them vivacity and The city of Arles and the Rencontres d’Arles resonance. The permanent back-and-forth movement share an affinity for light: the light shined on between the History inscribed in stone and the one our streets and our natural heritage, and the shown on gallery walls is at the very core of a festival light that writes the photographic image. which contributes to Arles’ international image. Under the leadership of Christoph Wiesner and And both these events attest to the lives of human the whole Rencontres team, and the enduring beings, with their faith, their search for light, commitment of Hubert Védrine, this light their desire to leave signs of their passage, tragic reflects back to tell us about the world. or sublime. Ultimately, over the years, the endless search for a manner to these memories we’d like This year we celebrate Arles’ heritage, able to leave behind has established a genuine to unite builders and creators. Each summer conversation between the city and photography. they demonstrate together that an hourglass alone doesn’t make something valuable, rather, Thus spins the endless tale; we continue to feed it, it’s the understanding between these two, where helping it grow bigger, nourishing everyone through the former stands as a living backdrop to the latter, gatherings and exchange, supported by the State or endlessly searching for new techniques and effects. local government, the Region and the Department. Would it have been possible for this International Thus, we are delighted to find new sites being Photography to exist someplace else before uncovered, like the Jardin d’été opening to the festival coming to Arles? I prefer to think not, while for the first time this year, and soon our small towns feeling everyone’s mounting enthusiasm. and hamlets in Crau and the Camargue will welcome similar enterprises—anywhere, essentially, that Unable to exchange culture, we plunged into invites the people of Arles to nourish themselves shadows which clouded the entire country. through exhibitions and what they express of the In July 2021, in Arles, light will break on the city, world which comes traveling to us. I am hoping on its monuments, its residents, and on photography. that even more residents will come discover this Welcome please, once again, dear festival-goers. year’s festival, and future festivals, because they 4 WORD FROM MANY THANKS THE PRESIDENT TO ALL OUR PARTNERS! Hubert Védrine The Rencontres d’Arles wishes to thank the President of the Rencontres d’Arles Ministry of Culture, the National Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the Provence‐ This summer, we will be especially happy to welcome Alpes‐Côte d’Azur Regional Council, the you to Arles for the Rencontres de la photographie. Bouches-du-Rhône department, the city of More than ever, we need to get together and Arles, and all our public partners who showed celebrate culture. The 51st edition did not take their enduring support again this year. place in 2020, a year without festivals. In 2021, For this year’s festival, the Rencontres we will offer you the 52nd, a balance between key d’Arles is pleased to be associated with large shows that could not be held last year and exciting national and international institutions, new proposals. This is a transitional year between such as the Barbican Centre in London, two directors: we welcomed Christoph Wiesner as Aperture New York, the École Nationale the new head of the festival in September 2020. Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles, It is important for us to be present in Arles’ the Institut pour la Photographie de Lille, increasingly rich cultural ecosystem. Much and to be included in Africa Season2020. to our delight, culture is growing by leaps We would like to thank all our sponsors and and bounds in Arles. The opening of Luma, private partners for their generosity and renewed planned for this summer, which we welcome, trust, firstly the Luma Foundation, BMW Art is eagerly anticipated well beyond Arles. & Culture, SNCF Gares & Connexions, Kering, The festival’s local and regional influence no the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture longer needs demonstrating. The Grand Arles et la Littérature, the Prix Pictet, Lët’z Arles Express, in particular, is increasingly successful (Luxembourg), the Louis Roederer Foundation, from year to year. In 2021, the Rencontres d'Arles the Swiss Confederation, and many others will once again take place within a network of which space prevents us from listing. friendly institutions. Photography is once again We wish to underline the precious support highlighted and honored in the South of France. brought by our partners of places in particular Even further afield, international cooperation the city of Arles, the Arles Crau Camargue remains on the agenda with the seventh Jimei x Arles Montagnette metropolitan area, the Foundation International Photography Festival in November and Luma, but also the SNCF, Monoprix Arles, a new collaboration with India’s Serendipity Arts the Association du Méjan, and this year for Foundation that has led to the creation of a major the first time the Museon Arlaten – Musée grant for photography, video and new media.