Category: Publications and Presentations
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Review: BATHERS BY RUTH KAPLAN | DAMIANI (November 2025)
In Bathers, Canadian photographer Ruth Kaplan explores public baths as a primordial stage where the human body appears in all its vulnerable splendor. By photographing spaces of shared nudity, she seeks to capture bodies freed from social artifices, suspended between modesty and revelation.
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Review: Japan Art Revolution, From Angura To Provoke | Amélie Ravalec (November 2025)
Amélie Ravalec’s Japan Art Revolution. From Angura to Provoke revisits one of the most incendiary moments in Japanese visual history, born from the ruins of a nation scarred by war and occupation. The author shows how, in the 1960s and 1970s, photography, theatre and politics intertwined to become the vectors of a shared revolt.
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Review: Fear of Mirrors by Alba Zari | XYZ Books and Yogurt Editions (November 2025)
Alba Zari’s book Fear of Mirrors explores the fragility of the gaze in a world saturated with images. The faces that appear seem to float between surface and depth, as if trying to hold on to something already slipping away. Each portrait questions the very possibility of self-recognition, now that the mirror has become a screen—ever-present, ever-watching.
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Review : EDWARD WESTON: BECOMING MODERN | MEP (October 2025)
The exhibition “Edward Weston — Modernity Revealed,” presented at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, traced the emergence of photographic modernity through more than one hundred vintage prints from the Wilson Centre for Photography.
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Presentation: Photographier la recherche : enquête sensible sur les gestes du savoir (November 18, 2025)
I will have the pleasure of traveling to Nantes for the study days Faire•Dire : écritures alternatives de la recherche – Dire 2025 : Quel(s) acte(s) pour la parole de la recherche ?, where I will present on November 18 a conference entitled « Photographier la recherche : enquête sensible sur les gestes du savoir ».
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Presentation: Le Japon dans les arts et la littérature. Autour de la photographie de Michael Kenna (November 14, 2025)
On November 14, 2025, I gave a lecture that was particularly close to my heart, “Erotisme, deuil et excès : représenter le Japon autrement dans l’œuvre photographique de Nobuyoshi Araki,” at Lycée Champollion in Grenoble, France.
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Exhibition review : « Le monde selon l’IA. L’IA et l’humanité : pour une nouvelle poétique du monde »
he article reflects on the exhibition “Le monde selon l’IA” at the Jeu de Paume, which explored the relationship between visual arts and artificial intelligence through more than forty artists. A key feature of the event was the invitation extended to ChatGPT to write both a preface and a critical commentary, positioning AI not only…
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Exhibition review : L’usure du milieu de l’art : zone sinistrée dans un décor de théâtre abandonné by Milutin Gubash at Galerie UQO (2025)
The exhibition The Wear and Tear of the Art World: Disaster Zone in an Abandoned Theater Set by Milutin Gubash, curated by Marie-Hélène Leblanc at Galerie UQO (November 20, 2024 – January 18, 2025), explores the tensions between artistic production, obsolescence, and commodification. The gallery is transformed into a chaotic space filled with second-hand objects, evoking a…
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Exhibition review : Antoine D’Agata, la Méthode, Centre Pompidou (2025)
In the Méthode exhibition-residency at the Centre Pompidou (September 23, 2024 – January 1, 2025), Antoine d’Agata transformed a museum gallery into an open studio, presenting thirty years of archives, personal objects, and visual narratives.
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Presentation: Unveiling Through Words: A Day of Study on Patrice Loubier’s Curatorial Intervention at Galerie UQO
Between March 2023 and May 2025, Galerie UQO lent itself to a daring experiment: it invited Patrice Loubier to make the gallery the object and context for a “curatorial intervention.” Rather than propose an exhibition for presentation by the gallery, the idea was to develop a project that would invest the gallery from within, transforming…