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Lectoure’s photographic summer
Lectoure’s photographic summer is a story rewritten every year since 1990 through an exploration of public and private heritage sites evoking the city's rich past and through a stroll to encounter contemporary works.
Location: Lectoure
entitled Our land, this new edition is an invitation to discover seven exhibitions exploring different points of view of the relationships between our daily lives and planet Earth. Throughout the exhibitions, the importance of the natural elements that are water and nourishing earth are invoked in these links that human beings must redefine with their environment. In the light of ecological and societal upheavals, Our land allows us to discover or re-discover the richness of the lands we tread through a poeticized, even sometimes transformed, reality. A reality where myths, legends, traditions and collections from yesterday or today are summoned, whether through vernacular techniques used to transform photography or through projects developed by guest artists. . Photography is here a means of meeting other realities fixing a certain form of beauty telling stories not with words but with images. Images which are ultimately a form of celebration of the living and an ode to the goddess of the earth, Gaia.
A particular focus on the young generation of Corsican visual photographers was imagined with the complicity of independent exhibition curator and art critic Madeleine Filippi.
The artistic project developed during Lectoure’s photographic summer is echoed in the eco-responsibility and ecological transition approach developed since the beginning of 2024 by the Center for Art and Photography. We are rethinking our operation, in order to limit our negative impacts on the environment and to strengthen our positive impacts on society.
We firmly believe that this approach is in line with the artistic project of the Center for Art and Photography and forms a whole with the latter. It does not seem coherent to us to defend programming celebrating the living if we do not engage, day after day, in a real
eco-responsibility approach. By placing both our artistic programming and our actions at the heart of current concerns, it seems to us that we are forming a society.
Lydie Marchi, general curator, director of the Lectoure Center for Art and Photography – CACIN
Kahn & Selesnick
The Dance of Death of Monsieur Buttons
In the Middle Ages, the dance of death was intended as a warning to
powerful and a source of comfort for the poor, a call to all for a
responsible and pious life. During their creative residency at the Center d’art et
photography of Lectoure in 2022, Kahn & Selesnick were inspired by both
objects preserved at the Museum of Archeology of the city, history and
landscapes of the latter, stories of the people met and like
always of films, failed expeditions, stories of lost islands, etc., to
imagine scenes inspired by dance of death. Cannot be achieved without
models, Kahn and Selesnick appealed to the inhabitants of Lectoure so that these
last ones pose during joyful cross-dressing sessions