{"id":577610,"date":"2024-04-15T23:39:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=577610"},"modified":"2024-05-13T13:51:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T13:51:56","slug":"opening-passages-french-and-american-photographers-in-conversation","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/opening-passages-french-and-american-photographers-in-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Passages &#8211; Photographers in Conversation at the Alliance fran\u00e7aise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During this conversation moderated by curators <strong>Carl Fuldner <\/strong>and <strong>Pascal Beausse<\/strong>, the artists will delve into the thematic elements of their works, exploring concepts such as borders, margins, and the interplay between the center and the periphery.<br>Each in her own way addresses the notion of margin and the relationship between center and periphery. All three have worked in the Greater Paris area, and explore language by collecting people&#8217;s words or questioning certain expressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The conversation will be followed by a reception<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Carl Fuldner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl Fuldner is a Chicago-based art historian and curator whose work engages photography&#8217;s role in shaping environmental perspectives. He holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago, where he also currently teaches as an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Master of Art Program in the Humanities and the Department of Art History. He is also a co-editor of&nbsp;<em>The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media<\/em>, published in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Pascal Beausse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pascal Beausse is Head of the photography collection at the Centre national des arts plastiques (Paris). With Anna Labouze, Keimis Henni and Cl\u00e9ment Postec, he&nbsp;curated the&nbsp;Regards du Grand Paris&nbsp;exhibition in 2022, presenting the works of 38 photographers who were laureates of the eponymous photographic commission launched in 2016, with the aim of building up, year after year, a corpus of images and authors\u2019 views on the evolution of the Greater Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Assia Labbas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assia Labbas, a writer and artist from the Paris region, studied literature and journalism before contributing to publications for Bondy Blog, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair. She joined Kourtrajm\u00e9 School in 2019, writing a short film screenplay and creating the <em>Cacophonique<\/em> installation exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2020. In 2021 she was a laureate of the national photographic commission <em>Regards du grand Pari<\/em>s carried out by the Ateliers M\u00e9dicis in collaboration with the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), aimed at documenting the contemporary urban upheavals at work in the French capital. <br>In her <em>RER B-ANLIEUES<\/em> series, she combines photography with testimonials from users of the RER B line, which connects the northern suburbs of Paris with the center of the capital, revealing unexpected perspectives on the landscape of the area and those living in, and the impact of media discourse on the people living in Seine-Saint-Denis.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Beau-Sevran-2021-Assia-Labbas-min-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-577977\" style=\"width:462px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Beau-Sevran-2021-Assia-Labbas-min-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Beau-Sevran-2021-Assia-Labbas-min-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Beau-Sevran-2021-Assia-Labbas-min-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Beau-Sevran-2021-Assia-Labbas-min-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Beau-Sevran-2021-Assia-Labbas-min-2048x1375.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p><em>RER B-ANLIEUES, <\/em>2021 \u00a9Assia Labbas<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Rebecca Topakian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021 laureate of the national photographic commission <em>Regards du Grand Paris<\/em>, led by the Ateliers M\u00e9dicis in collaboration with the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Rebecca Topakian is a 2015 graduate of \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure de la Photographie of Arles. She has won several grants such as the Fondation des Artistes scholarship and the Cnap scholarship for documentary photography. She has also been awarded the Prix F\u00e9n\u00e9on and the ADIAF Emergence prize. Her book, <em>Dame Gulizar And Other Love Stories<\/em>, is due for publication in July 2024. Her work is currently featured in exhibitions such as <em>La France sous leurs yeux <\/em>at the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France (Paris) and <em>Along the crumbling wall, soon, the violet will bloom<\/em>, a solo show at Borderline Art Space (Ia\u015fi, Romania).<br>In her series\u00a0<em>(n=6-9)<\/em>, she explores the Greater Paris area through exotic birds, drawing parallels between the discourse on these birds sub- that have settled in Paris, and the discourse on other human migrations and the pejorative terminologies that surround them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TOPAKIAN-VF-1024x691.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-578002\" style=\"width:476px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TOPAKIAN-VF-1024x691.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TOPAKIAN-VF-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TOPAKIAN-VF-768x519.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TOPAKIAN-VF-1536x1037.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/TOPAKIAN-VF-2048x1383.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p><em>mais qu&#8217;est ce qu&#8217;invasif veut dire?<\/em> series <em><em><em>(n=6-9)<\/em><\/em> [but what does &#8220;invasive&#8221; mean?<\/em> series<em><em>&nbsp;(n=6-9)], <\/em>2021<\/em>, \u00a9Rebecca Topakian<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Sasha Phyars-Burgess<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sasha Phyars-Burgess, a Brooklyn native raised in Pennsylvania to Trinidadian parents, is a skilled photographer with a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Cornell University. She&#8217;s recognized as an emerging voice in contemporary photography, her work showcasing series blending documentary and fine art, exploring themes of diaspora, family, place, and social phenomena. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship Award and the Diane Dammeyer Award for her work in the neighborhood of Austin in Chicago. <br>In 2023, she undertook an artist residency in Paris as part of the <em>Clichycago<\/em> program at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ateliersmedicis.fr\/en\">Ateliers M\u00e9dicis<\/a>, settingup a darkroom in a local community center to organize workshops. In both cities, she offers a vision of the long process of social and economic disinheritance experienced by marginalized urban communities, and captures their presence and grace.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/screen-sasha-1-1024x796.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-578576\" style=\"width:434px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/screen-sasha-1-1024x796.png 1024w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/screen-sasha-1-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/screen-sasha-1-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/screen-sasha-1.png 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p><em>SIRA, ATELIERS MEDICIS, CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS,<\/em> series <em>UNTITLED AND YET TO BE DETERMINED, 48.9109\u00b0 N, 2.5461\u00b0 E<\/em>, 2019, \u00a9Sasha Phyars-Burgess<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fartdesignchicago.org%2Fevent%2Fopening-passages-photographers-respond-to-chicago-and-paris%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Clouise.graf%40frenchculture.org%7C4cdf0ae2e2f04e8316b008dc582e2cc4%7C2d6ab33a15c04d1eb0363b23ceb26830%7C0%7C0%7C638482202538627417%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kXUDcLpYYjH78bFXfA0rTFxzhWaTc3QkF3xKtuMYpW4%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Opening\u00a0Passages : Photographers\u00a0Respond to Chicago and Paris<\/a>\u00a0 is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/artdesignchicago.org\/\">Art Design Chicago<\/a>, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city\u2019s artistic heritage and creative communities.\u00a0Since 2021, the Paris-Chicago dialogue has been flourishing under the umbrella of <strong>Clichycago<\/strong>: a platform for community-based cultural exchange and artistic experimentation, with the support of the Ateliers M\u00e9dicis in Clichy-sous-Bois \/ Montfermeil (France) and Villa Albertine in Chicago.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":594575,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[218],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[242,241],"class_list":["post-577610","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-exhibition","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Opening Passages - Photographers in Conversation at the Alliance fran\u00e7aise - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/opening-passages-french-and-american-photographers-in-conversation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Opening Passages - Photographers in Conversation at the Alliance fran\u00e7aise - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"During this conversation moderated by curators Carl Fuldner and Pascal Beausse, the artists will delve into the thematic elements of their works, exploring concepts such as borders, margins, and the interplay between the center and the periphery.Each in her own way addresses the notion of margin and the relationship between center and periphery. 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