{"id":8604835,"date":"2026-03-03T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_event&p=8604835"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:58:42","slug":"a-transatlantic-dialogue-in-images-the-en-route-exhibition-opens-in-marseille","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/a-transatlantic-dialogue-in-images-the-en-route-exhibition-opens-in-marseille\/","title":{"rendered":"A Transatlantic Dialogue in Images: The En Route Exhibition Opens in Marseille"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Presented by Villa Albertine\u00a0and La\u00a0Friche\u00a0la Belle de\u00a0mai, in partnership with\u00a0the High Museum of Art\u00a0Atlanta,\u00a0curated by Maria L. Kelly,\u00a0the exhibition runs\u00a0from March 14 to May 3, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition marks the\u00a0achievement\u00a0of the City\/Cit\u00e9 Atlanta\u00a0x\u00a0Marseille\u00a0platform\u00a0launched in 2022,\u00a0putting in dialogue two major southern cities shaped by layered histories, migration, and strong cultural identities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four artists, who completed residencies abroad, present new works developed through immersion and exchange.\u00a0Marseille-based photographers\u00a0Yohanne\u00a0Lamoul\u00e8re<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Geoffroy Mathieu<\/strong>\u00a0traveled to Atlanta,\u00a0a major center for\u00a0African American\u00a0culture and a fast-growing metropolis.\u00a0On the other\u00a0hand,\u00a0Atlanta-based\u00a0artists\u00a0Nydia Blas\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Joshua Dudley Greer<\/strong>\u00a0spent time in Marseille, an open port on the\u00a0Mediterranean Sea\u00a0with a\u00a0cultural melting\u00a0pot yet\u00a0also marked by geographical and social divisions. Through photography, each artist navigated unfamiliar terrains,\u00a0using the medium as a tool for meetings, observations, and reflections.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Atlanta,\u00a0Yohanne\u00a0Lamoul\u00e8re<\/strong>\u00a0immersed herself in high school marching bands, producing portraits and dynamic scenes that capture discipline, pride, and collective energy.\u00a0Geoffroy\u00a0Mathieu\u00a0<\/strong>explored the sprawling, car-oriented city on foot, documenting improvised pedestrian routes and the individuals who move through terrains not designed for walking.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Marseille, Nydia Blas collaborated with teenagers working at La Friche la Belle de Mai, creating intimate, co-authored portraits that reflect the city\u2019s multicultural identity. Dudley Greer focused on Marseille\u2019s varied neighborhoods and rocky landscapes, tracing subtle intersections of past, present, and future across its 111 districts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, the four perspectives reveal unexpected resonances between Atlanta and Marseille while emphasizing their distinct geographies and histories.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0residencies\u00a0and exhibition\u00a0could\u00a0not have\u00a0happened\u00a0without\u00a0the\u00a0generous\u00a0support and\u00a0dedication\u00a0of\u00a0Villa Albertine<\/a>,\u00a0Friche la Belle de Mai<\/a>, and the\u00a0High Museum of Art<\/a>.\u00a0The exhibition\u00a0is\u00a0supported\u00a0by\u00a0Etant\u00a0donn\u00e9s, a program of Albertine\u00a0Foundation\u00a0and Villa Albertine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Artists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria L. Kelly<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria L. Kelly<\/strong> is the Assistant Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art. Maria was the curatorial assistant in the High\u2019s photography department from 2011 to 2016 and returned to the museum in 2019. During her time at the High, Maria has helped organize more than twenty-five photography installations. Her exhibitions at the High include Photography\u2019s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing<\/em> (2025), Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space <\/em>(2024), Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection<\/em> (2021), What Is Near: Reflections on Home<\/em> (2016), Helen Levitt: In the Street (2015)<\/em>, and Leonard Freed: Black in White America<\/em> (2014). She was the venue curator for Deana Lawson<\/em> (2022), co-organized by the ICA Boston and MoMA PS1, and Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz: Postcards from Paris<\/em> (2022), organized by the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yohanne Lamoul\u00e8re<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yohanne Lamoul\u00e8re<\/strong>, a photographer based in Marseille, France, graduated from the \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de photographie in Arles in 2004. Her preferred themes are urban peripheries and insularity in its multifaceted forms. She published Faux Bourgs<\/em> (Le Bec en l\u2019air) in 2018, a compilation of her series on Marseille. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions: MUCEM (Marseille), Portrait(s) festival (Vichy), Fondation Schneider (Wattwiller), ImageSinguli\u00e8res festival (S\u00e8te), Clervaux-Cit\u00e9 de l\u2019image (Luxembourg), and is included in public and private collections (CNAP, BnF, Neuflize-OBC). A member of the collectives Tendance Floue and Zirlib, she released her first film, L\u2019\u0153il Noir,<\/em> in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nydia\u00a0Blas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nydia\u00a0Blas<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0visual\u00a0artist\u00a0who\u00a0grew\u00a0up in Ithaca, New York, and\u00a0resides\u00a0in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0She\u00a0is\u00a0an Assistant Professor in the\u00a0Department\u00a0of Art and Visual Culture at\u00a0Spelman\u00a0College\u00a0in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0She\u00a0has\u00a0completed\u00a0artist\u00a0residencies\u00a0at Constance\u00a0Saltonstall\u00a0Foundation\u00a0for the Arts and The Center for\u00a0Photography\u00a0at Woodstock.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times<\/em>, New York Magazine<\/em>, The New Yorker<\/em>, Time Magazine<\/em>, Harper\u2019s Bazaar,<\/em> and more. Blas uses photography, collage, video, and books to explore themes of sexuality, intimacy, and her lived experience as a girl, woman, and mother. Blas is widely recognized for The Girls Who Spun Gold<\/em>, a collection of images that resulted from a Girl Empowerment Group she founded after observing a lack of space and community for teen girls of African descent in Ithaca, N.Y. Her first major monograph Love You Came from Greatness<\/em> (2025), is an exploration of one Ithaca-based Black family and its community across many generations. The book is also a formally rigorous examination of the taxonomy and syntax of family portraiture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Geoffroy Mathieu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geoffroy Mathieu<\/strong>\u2019s photography explores how environmental and political issues\u00a0are made tangible in the\u00a0landscapes. Through travel\u00a0and\u00a0immersion\u00a0based\u00a0projects, he documents shifting territories, in-between spaces, and\u00a0objects\u00a0and\u00a0actions that reveal\u00a0resistances in the way in which places are used.\u00a0His\u00a0photography series are all pursued as poetic investigations,\u00a0combining rigorous documentary research with a poetic approach to build\u00a0situated narratives. He\u00a0collaborates with associations,\u00a0collectives,\u00a0and researchers to circulate his images beyond the art world, support\u00a0causes,\u00a0and contribute to public debate on ecological care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A graduate of the\u00a0French Higher School of Photography (ENSP) in Arles,\u00a0he lives and works in Marseille.\u00a0He presents his works as publications (Actes\u00a0Sud,\u00a0Poursuite,\u00a0Filigranes,\u00a0Zo\u00e8me,\u00a0Wildproject, Building Books), solo or collective exhibitions, and, more recently, walked performances. He\u00a0participated\u00a0in the fourth edition of Regards du Grand Paris (2021), received the\u00a0\u201cRadioscopie\u00a0of\u00a0France”\u00a0Major\u00a0Photojournalism Commission\u00a0(2022), and co-published\u00a0Anti-installation\u00a0with Jordi Ballesta (Building Books, 2023), supported by the\u00a0French Center for Visual Arts (CNAP) publishing grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joshua Dudley Greer <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Dudley Greer (b. 1980, Hazleton, PA) is a photographer based in Atlanta, GA, where he teaches at Georgia State University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The California Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic, PDN, Le Monde, The Georgia Review, GUP Magazine, and Oxford American. He has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation. He has published two monographs to date \u2013 Somewhere Along the Line (Kehrer Verlag, 2019) and The Makeshift City (GOST, 2024). His work is included in the permanent collections of the Harvard Art Museums, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New York Public Library, the Do Good Fund, and the High Museum of Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8604970,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[],"app_city_tax":[221],"app_event_type":[242],"class_list":["post-8604835","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_city_tax-atl","app_event_type-exhibition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA Transatlantic Dialogue in Images: The En Route Exhibition Opens in Marseille - 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\/a-transatlantic-dialogue-in-images-the-en-route-exhibition-opens-in-marseille\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Transatlantic Dialogue in Images: The En Route Exhibition Opens in Marseille - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Presented by Villa Albertine\u00a0and La\u00a0Friche\u00a0la Belle de\u00a0mai, in partnership with\u00a0the High Museum of Art\u00a0Atlanta,\u00a0curated by Maria L. 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