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PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

Circulation(s), festival of young european photographyFrom january 24 to march 8 2015 at CENTQUATRE-PARIS.CENTQUATRE, 5 rue Curial 75019 Paris

From Tuesday to Friday from 1a.m. to 7p.m.Weekend from 12a.m. to 7p.m.Closed on MondaysFree accessAccess for late performance : 5 rue Curial entry only

ACCESS

Metro : Riquet (line 7)Stalingrad (lines 2, 5 et 7)Marx Dormoy (line 12)

OPENING

PRESS OPENING : January, Friday 23 from 10am to 1pmPUBLIC OPENING : January, Saturday 24 from 3pm to 7pm followed by the Bal Pop’ from 7pm

AROUND THE FESTIVAL

Signature of Clément Huylenbroeck for his THIS IS NOT A MAPJanuary, saturday 24 / 4pm / Atelier 7 / Free

Round table and projection in partnership with the Maison du Geste et de L’Image January, saturday 31 / from 11:30am to 1:30pm / and then from 2pm to 5pm / Room 200 / Free

Fetart Academy #3 From february, tuesday 3 to friday 6 / from 12am to 2:30pm / Atelier 7 / Free

JEEP - European Days of Photography SchoolFrom february, friday 27 to sunday 1st marchwww.j-e-e-p.eu

Portfolio reviewFebruary, saturday 28 and march, sunday 1st / from 2pm to 6pm / Ecuries Sud

Digigraphie® workshop partnership with EpsonFebruary, saturday 28 and march, sunday 1st / from 3pm to 7pm / Place des Ecuries / Free

Fetart Academy #4 March, saturday 7 / from 2pm to 4:30pm / Atelier 7 / Free

6 MOIS Magazine - Preview of the #9 March, saturday 7 / from 6pm to 7:30pm / Room 200 / Free



WEBSITES

Circulation(s) Festival : www.festival-circulations.com

CENTQUATRE-PARIS : www.104.fr

European Days of Photography School : www.j-e-e-p.eu

Circulagram : www.circulagram.com

Fetart : www.fetart.org

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Facebook : Festival Circulations

Twitter : Fetart (@fetartparis)

APPLICATION CIRCULATION(S)

Available on App Store et Google Play.

Download on your smartphone or on your tablet the application Circulation(s) and reach the exclusive contents. The pictogram of the application will indicate for which artist these contents are available :



1. INTRODUCTION

Since its first edition in 2011, Circulation(s) Festival of Young European Photography has been held in the “Parc de Bagatelle”, in Paris.Thanks to Fabienne Giboudeaux support, (Deputy Mayor in charge of the green spaces and to Sylvie Depondt and Christophe Chaumont at the Environment and Green spaces Direction (DEVE), the Festival has evolved into a major event in the French photo industry.

With 4 consecutive years of success and a growing recognition coming from the audience and the media, the Circulation(s) festival is gaining momentum by setting up last year the exhibition at the “CENTQUATRE-PARIS”. This center located within Paris, recognized for its qualitative cultural program will give the festival a great exposure and a chance to be visited by a wide audience.For the fifth year, the Circulation(s) festival is the only one focusing on Young European Photography by exhibiting a photographic dialogue about Europe.

Aiming at scouting and developing talents coming from the young European photographic scene, the festival, organized by Fetart, (a non-profit organization created in 2005), also wishes to connect and federate with partners promoting the same ambition: helping the young photographers to step into the professional market and exhibit an innovative contemporary artistic production.

The festival programming is staged with the Jury’s selection - made after an international call for submission, the selection from an invited school and one from an invited gallery as well as the selection promoted by this year’s sponsor, Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of the “Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle”, in Switzerland.

Along with a significant exhibition hosting the work of 43 photographers, educational activities (guided tour by the artists, screenings, …) and workshops (portfolios lectures) will be organized for the public at large and young photographers.

CIRCULATION(S), AN EUROPEAN FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO THE YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHY

Considering the fact that there wasn’t any photographic event entirely dedicated to the young European photography anywhere in France, Fetart has decided to organize this festival in 2011 as an extension to its non-profit actions made since 2005 in order to promote young talents in photography throughout Europe.

Circulation(s) other ambition is to network with other European structures dedicated to promote the young photography and communicate about initiatives made by European curators, gallery, festivals, collectives, schools of photography and editors. This festival stands out for its open mindedness and its pan-European as well as its prospective vision about contemporary innovation and creation. Beyond the setting up the exhibition itself, the festival wishes to relay European cultural initiatives and give them more visibility within the festival such as :

- Giving an opportunity to the young artists to be represented in the cultural and artistic European scene.- Encourage the exchange of experiences by the mobility of European professionals from the world of photography and image.- Promote an intercultural dialogue.- Identify a common and shared cultural European ground.- Facilitate the circulation of cultural works and making accessible other European projects to the widest possible audience.



Again this year, these festivals will be hosting the 2015 edition under the form of screenings within their own program. Our partners are :- Belfast Foto Festival (Irland)- BIP Biennale internationale de la Photographie et des Arts visuels de Liège (Belgium)- Encontros da Imagem de Braga (Portugal)- Format Festival (United Kingdom) - Fotografia Europea de Reggio Emilia (Italy) - Lódz Fotofestiwal (Poland)

Nathalie HERSCHDORFER, 2015 SPONSOR’S EDITION

For this year’s edition, we are honored to introduce our sponsor Nathalie Herschdorfer,She is currently Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. In 2010 she was named director of the photography festival Alt. +1000 in Switzerland for which she curated two years of programming. She has also been working as a curator with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) for several years. Previously, she was a curator at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, where she worked for twelve years on major exhibitions, including Face: the Death of the Portrait, and retrospectives of Edward Steichen, Leonard Freed, Ray K. Metzker and Valérie Belin. She is the author of Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past (2011), editor of Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography (2012) and co-author, with William A. Ewing, ofreGeneration: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today, two books dedicated to emerging photography on the international scene. Among her recent projects are a dictionary of photography (to be published in 2015), Swiss Positions: 33 takes on sustainable approaches to building, a world-touring exhibition produced by the Swiss Confederation, and Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast, a travelling exhibition produced by FEP and accompanied by a book published in 6 editions.

THE “CENTQUATRE”

The « CENTQUATRE » is conceived as an artistic collaborative center mixing innovation, creation and experience. Located in the former municipal funeral home, this place can only be a welcoming and lively stage for the artists and the audience. Opened to a vibrant contemporary artistic and cultural production as well as to the performing arts, the center have the ability to present all of those forms of arts within its walls, as its surface is vast and modular - it is divided in public spaces, research workshops, and performing stages. For the festival’s 5th edition, the “CENTQUATRE” becomes a special partner as it host for the first time the Circulation(s) festival which will spread with various options of scenography through the entire southern side of the center, from the “Château d’Eau” (entry on rue Curial) to the “Halle Aubervilliers”, going across the “Nef Curial” and the workshops rooms (1/3/5). The big novelty of this edition will be the presence of an exhibition at the level of children in the CENTQUATRE-PARIS.



RESIDENCE

José Manuel Gonçalvès, director of the “CENTQUATRE-PARIS” will give a chance for a chosen artist whom he has elected as his “coup de coeur” the opportunity to be inresidence at the 104. In 2014, Rubén Plasencia has been elected.

THE CATALOG

A bilingual (French / English) color catalog will be edited and published by the “Éditions du Bec en l’Air”. It will introduce each artist and participant involved in the Circulation(s) 5th edition. The catalog should be on sale on site during the festival and in every specialized bookstore.

THIS IS NOT A MAP SPECIAL CIRCULATION(S)

Poetry Wanted is a small French publishing house specialized in the photography. “Texas” inaugurates the collection THIS IS NOT A MAP. Perfectly useless maps which celebrate the meeting of a photographer and a place. Poetry Wanted was founded in 2013 by Rémi Noël.

This is not has map special Circulation(s) will make you share the pictures of the artist Clément Huylenbroeck who will signed his map during the public preview (january, saturday 24) at 4pm at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS (Atelier 7).



2 . PROGRAMMING

The festival programming will be articulated around a multi-faceted approach:- The jury’s selection - Our sponsor’s “carte blanche” - The invited gallery and school’s selection - The invited artists- Hors les murs

THE 2014 JURY’S SELECTION

Following an international call for application disseminated to relevant structures involved in the visual domain (institutions, festivals, schools, galleries, medias), more than 600 photographers have sent a file. Based on the artistic quality, the relevance of the work and an expressed personal approach, the candidatures were examined and selected by a jury of professional from the visual and image sector gathered around José Manuel Gonçalvès, director of the “CENTQUATRE” and Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of the “Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle”, in Switzerland, this year’s sponsor.

The end of that process has found 21 European photographers eligible :- Kristoffer Axén (Sweden) - Christian Berthelot (France) - Aladin Borioli (Switzerland) - Petros Efstathiadis (Greece) - Juliette-Andrea Elie (France) - EPECTASE (France)- Fabrice Fouillet (France) - Anni Hanén (Finland) - Clément Huylenbroeck (Belgium) - Wawrzyniec Kolbusz (Poland) - Catherine Leutenegger (Switzerland) - Romain Mader (Switzerland) - Nikola Mihov (Bulgaria) - Tito Mouraz (Portugal) - Alexandra Polina (Uzbekistan) - Rita Puig-Serra Costa (Spain) - Laurence Rasti (Switzerland) - Torsten Schumann (Germany)- Ulysse & Darcoe (France) - Lonneke Van Der Palen (Netherlands) - Franky Verdickt (Belgium)



NATHALIE HERSCHDORFER’S “CARTE BLANCHE”

Using his license to promote the artists of his choice for the festival, this year’s sponsor Nathalie Herschdorfer has invited four young photographers :- Salvi Danés (Spain)- Ola Lanko (Ukraine)- Cyril Porchet (Switzerland) - WassinkLundgren (Netherlands)

THE INVITED GALLERY AND SCHOOL

Each year, the festival offer a high visibility for two European structures dedicated to the visual arts. This year’s invited school is the Focus Athens School of Art & Photography (Greece) and the invited gallery is the Breadfield Gallery (Sweden).

The school’s guests are :- Xenia Naselou (Greece)- Ioannis Stefanidis (Greece)

The gallery’s guests are : - Erik Östensson (Sweden)- Jenny Rova (Sweden)

THE INVITED ARTISTS

“Coups de cœur”, discoveries, twinkling, ... Several invited artists and special projects are welcomed to exhibit, screen or install their work within the festival itself :- Nicoló Degiorgis (Italy) - Philippe Dollo (France) - David Fathi (France) - Dionisio Gonzalez (Spain) - Audrey Laurans (France) - Grzegorz Loznikow (Poland)- Jan Maschinski (Germany) - Dita Pepe (Czech Republic) - Camilla Pongiglione (Italy) - Jan Rosseel (Belgium) - Aldo Soligno (Italy) - The Cool Couple (Italy)- Catrine Val (Germany)

EXHIBITION HORS LES MURS

Discover the new series of three photographers of Circulation(s) exposed to the Station of Paris-North as well as a selection of photos exposed to the CENTQUATRE-PARIS. Exhibition realized in partnership with Gares & Connexions. - Karolin Klüppel (Allemagne)- Charlotte Lybeer (Belgique)- Guillaume Martial (France)



3. ARTISTS EXPOSEDName Surname Serie Nation Selection PagesKristoffer AXÉN Events in Nature SWEDEN Selection of the jury 10

Christian BERTHELOT CESAR FRANCE Selection of the jury 10

Aladin BORIOLI Apian SWITZERLAND Selection of the jury 11

Salvi DANÉS Black Ice, Moscow SPAIN Free hand 21

Nicoló DEGIORGIS Hidden Islam ITALY Guest artist 25

Philippe DOLLO Aître Sudète FRANCE Guest artist 25

Petros EFSTATHIADIS Prison GREECE Selection of the jury 11

Juliette-Andrea ELIE Fading Landscapes FRANCE Selection of the jury 12

Corentin Fohlen et Jérôme von Zilw EPECTASE Le Philosophe FRANCE Selection of the jury 12

David FATHI Anecdotal FRANCE Guest artist 26

Fabrice FOUILLET Colosses FRANCE Selection of the jury 13

Dionisio GONZALEZ Visiones de perímetro SPAIN Guest artist 26

Anni HANÉN Just small hiccups FINLAND Selection of the jury 13

Clément HUYLENBROECK Communal dream BELGIUM Selection of the jury 14

Karolin KLÜPPEL Mädchenland GERMANY Hors les Murs 32

Wawrzyniec KOLBUSZ Sacred Defense POLAND Selection of the jury 14

Ola LANKO Kids UKRAINE Free Hand 21

Audrey LAURANS Le distributeur d'ancêtres photographiques

FRANCE Guest artist 27

Catherine LEUTENEGGER Kodak City SWITZERLAND Selection of the jury 15

Grzegorz LOZNIKOW Masters POLAND Guest artist 27

Charlotte LYBEER The Furtastic Adventures of The Cabbit and The Folf

BELGIUM Hors les Murs 32

Romain MADER Ekaterina SWITZERLAND Selection of the jury 15

Guillaume MARTIAL Le Modulor FRANCE Hors les Murs 33

Jan MASCHINSKI Choke GERMANY Guest artist 28

Nikola MIHOV The Sea Inside BULGARIA Selection of the jury 16

Tito MOURAZ Casa das Sete Senhoras PORTUGAL Selection of the jury 16

Xenia NASELOU Random summer moments GREECE School guest 23

Eric ÖSTENSSON The Circle and the Line SWEDEN Gallery guest 24

Dita PEPE Self-portraits with men CZECH REPUBLIC

Guest artist 28

Alexandra POLINA Generation 60 UZBEKISTAN Selection of the jury 17

Camilla PONGIGLIONE For Heart’s Sake ITALY Guest artist 29

Cyril PORCHET Crowd SWITZERLAND Free hand 22

Rita PUIG-SERRA COSTA Where Mimosa Bloom SPAIN Selection of the jury 17

Laurence RASTI There are no homosexuals in Iran

SUISSE Selection of the jury 18

Jan ROSSEEL Belgian Autumn BELGIUM Guest artist 29

Jenny ROVA I would also like to be SWEDEN Gallery guest 24

Torsten SCHUMANN For Tomorrow GERMANY Selection of the jury 18

Aldo SOLIGNO Let them show their faces ITALY Guest artist 30

Ioannis STEFANIDIS Mother GREECE School guest 23

Niccolò Benetton et Simone Santilli THE COOL COUPLE Approximation to the West ITALY Guest artist 30

Ulysse Payet et Isaora Le Jeannic ULYSSE & DARCOE Fleur Viande FRANCE Selection of the jury 19

Catrine VAL Philosophers GERMANY Guest artist 31

Lonneke VAN DER PALEN Souvenir NETHERLANDS Selection of the jury 19

Franky VERDICKT The South Street Village BELGIUM Selection of the jury 20

Thijs groot Wassink et Ruben Lundgren

WASSINKLUNDGREN Tokyo Tokyo NETHERLANDS Free hand 22

All in all, 45 photographers will present their works through exhibitions, projections and installations.The complete biographies of the artists are available on-line on www.festival-circulations.com



Christian BERTHELOT “CESAR”FRANCE

Born in 1976 in France, lives and works in Bretagne (France).

The “CESAR” series started in 2013. It is the artistic follow-up to a photographic report about the obstetrician’s job in operating theaters.“CESAR” is about children portraits. They were all born through caesarean section and are all only a few seconds old. They all have survived.These pictures are for Christian Berthelot the first representation of a new human being, unique and primitive.

www.christianberthelot.com

SELECTION OF THE JURY

Kristoffer AXÉN

“Events in nature” SWEDEN

Born in 1984 in Sweden, lives and works in Stockholm (Sweden).

Kristoffer Axén’s pictures –both the staged and the document– are brought through a detailed post-production process where a tonality of thick shadows and selected highlights interweaves with an almost monochromatic color palette leaning towards the blue. Furthermore certain objects and, at times, complete backgrounds are removed or rearranged to create a space where figures (made anonymous) float in a world extracted from any specifics. Instead a mood of hushed apprehension is depicted and investigated, where the tension of the unknown becomes the main character.

www.kristofferaxen.com


THE JURY’S SELECTION



Aladin BORIOLI

“Apian” SWITZERLAND

Born in 1988 in Switzerland, lives and works in Bevaix (Switzerland).

“Apian” explores the link between bees, architecture and science fiction. The artist’s interest in bees comes from his grand-father who was a beekeeper. Aladin Borioli also got his inspiration from 20th century dystopian novels that describe community and totalitarian futuristic societies. He also draws his vision from the essay The Beehive Metaphor by Juan A. Ramírez published in 1998, in which the influence of bees on our architecture is analyzed. “Apian” mixes hybrid constructions –between traditional beehive and concrete bricks– with architectures pictures reduced to the status of model, making us reflect about the notion of scale.

www.aplusb.li

Petros EFSTATHIADIS

“Prison” GEECE

Born in 1980 in Greece, lives and works in Argos (Greece).

Petros Efstathiadis creates sculptures and decors from a varied array of materials he finds. Once documented and photographed, the sculptures are dismantled and the components are returned to their everyday use. The only thing that remains is the photograph: images which, once juxtaposed, recompose a fantastical and poetic memory of a place in turmoil. His sculptures are born from what the landscape contains, the entire landscape expresses destitution. This manner of recycling, of “making do” with what his immediate surroundings provide, is the foundation of his work. It’s an improvised prison which unfolds narratives of a place stricken by poverty and repression.

www.petrosefstathiadis.com





Juliette-Andrea ELIE

“Fading Landscapes” FRANCE

Born in 1985, lives and works in Paris (France).

The aim of the series “Fading Landscapes” is to make visible the invasion of the feelings and the memories of the traveler in landscapes. On the pictures printed on tracing paper, an embossed drawing lets float ghostlike and cloudy shapes. These diaphanous images, where several journeys can be placed on top of each other, question the medium of photography to reveal the flow of time, the lability of the worlds.

www.cargocollective.com/julietteandreaelie

EPECTASE (Corentin FOHLEN & Jérôme von ZILW)“Le Philosophe” FRANCE

Corentin Fohlen is born in 1981 and Jérôme von Zilw in 1984. Epectase duo was founded in 2012, they live and work in France.

As an expression of absurdity in an absurd world, an outburst of freedom in narrow landscape, the pictures of “The Philosopher” are the result of improvised events, born out of the search –at the whim of improvised journeys– of places favorable to disruption, to reinvention.The settings are those of the institutional planning. Confined in their useful role, they become inhuman. Epectase (Corentin Fohlen and Jérôme von Zilw) brings back the body to it, fitted with a bizarre sensuality, both Old France style and futuristic. Between dada poetry and punk controversy, the body which is staged here wants to wake up life.

www.epectase.org





Fabrice FOUILLET

“Colosses” FRANCE

Born in 1974 in France, lives and works in Paris (France).

As a work of art which is often idealized, an ideological, political or religious representation, the statue gives strength and eternity to the depicted subject. Erected so as to maintain the memory of a person or an action within a given culture, it spans centuries. The “Colossus” series is a study of the landscapes in which the monumental commemorative statues fall within. If excessiveness seduces and fascinates, Fabrice Fouillet has first been intrigued by this human need of giant declarations. Then he questioned the relationship with space that such “works” could have. He chose to take pictures of these giants outside their formal layouts, thus emphasizing a more distanced look which enables to focus on the landscape while placing the monument again in a more contemporary temporality.

www.fabricefouillet.com

Anni HANÉN

“Just small hiccups” FINLAND

Born in 1981 in Finland, lives and works in Helsinki (Finland).

For Anni Hanén, the series “Just small hiccups” is a way of telling her child about our heritage, things that can only be felt, meaningful things. The series is based on feelings that arose when the photographer moved back to her childhood home with her family. Her memories are colored by how we feel and imagine life, its colors, flavors, fears and tragedies, not forgetting the good, the bad and the authority in life. Such “photo-theatrical” moments, built with her child, join the experiences of both –her own past and her son’s childhood– through a visual dialogue between mother and son, past and present.

www.annihanen.comSELECTION OF THE JURY




Clément HUYLENBROECK

“Communal Dream” BELGIUM

Born in 1988 in Belgium, lives and works in Brussels (Belgium).

“The misses live an affordable dream ; with a feverish performance and a few descaled smiles, they already think they’re there. In front of many excited eyes, they bend their bodies according to an improvised choreographer. They give their hair, their flesh, their nails, their naivety to a poorly overdressed and tipsy crowd. Their attempt is beautiful; during a poor performance copied on the parade of the national misses, they dream, they think of themselves as the epitome of elegance.Carried away by this communal dream they shape their figures and turn men on. At the end of the night, the communal dream turns into a heart-breaking dream, a hurtful disillusion : the bulging eyes turn away, the mouths are now salivating for another one.”

www.clementhuylenbroeck.com

Wawrzyniec KOLBUSZ“Sacred Defense” POLAND

Born in 1977 in Poland, lives and works in Varsovia (Poland).

This series documents construction of fake war images in Iran and creates new war-related simulacra in digitally amended satellite images of Iranian nuclear sites. We believe what we see is war, but we’re only looking at illusions. Cinema sets city, built only to shoot war films. Or Museums where some rooms mimic the war reality. Or plastic replicas of land mines - souvenirs. Or people, whole nations, curing trauma by trying to fix their physical appearance– using aesthetic nose surgery.Even amended images of nuclear sites - exclusive versions of damages, that could have been done by Western strike. Some buildings damaged in images stand intact in others; while shown on one single sat map.

www.wawrzynieckolbusz.com





Catherine LEUTENEGGER“Kodak City” SWITZERLAND

Born in 1983 in Switzerland, lives and works in Lausanne (Suisse).

Kodak city is a company-city, a city marked by its industrial history. Indeed, it’s in Rochester that George Eastman created Kodak in 1892, the company that was to revolutionize photography in the 20th century. 120 years later, Kodak has filed for bankruptcy because it missed the numerical revolution. With this photographical investigation, Catherine Leutenegger leads to these places full of history which are about to disappear. She looks at the discolored face of the city and at people who lost their illusions. Bright and polished, with an aesthetics close to the advertising photography of the 70’s, everything seems to have survived inside the production places of Kodak ; everything seems unchanged, intact in spite of the passing time.

www.cleutenegger.com

Romain MADER“Ekaterina” SWITZERLAND

Born in Switzerland in 1988, lives and works in Lausanne (Suisse).

This work was made in a Ukrainian town created in 2007 by group of German investors eager to speculate on the sexual tourism industry. It’s a booming sector in this former soviet republic, world widely renowned for the beauty of its women.In this microcosm reserved to these and rich European bachelors searching for sensuality and marital stability, Romain Mader stages his own character searching for his future wife.Through humor and irony, beyond naive words and an old-fashioned aesthetics, Romain Mader here addresses solitude, a certain social discrepancy and the maladjustment to the sometimes absurd codes of modernity.

www.stereotyp.es





Nikola MIHOV “The Sea Inside” BULGARIA

Born in 1982 in Bulgaria, lives and works in Sofia (Bulgaria).

In June 2014, the Black Sea town of Varna, Bulgaria, was hit by heavy rains. The suburb of Asparuhovo was swamped by a three meters high flood destroying everything in its path and killing 13 people. According to the authorities, the disaster was due to an illegal waste site and unmaintained drains which allowed a large amount of water to collect and subsequently sweep away the illegally built houses. However, the residents believe that the wave was not caused by the torrential rain but by a breakage of the nearby military base’s reservoir. Rumors of divine retribution, UFO interference and even a HAARP (American military program) attack have also spread. Right after the flood Nikola Mihov spent three days in Asparuhovo documenting the interiors of some of the most damaged houses in the Roma neighborhood, as well as the stories of their inhabitants.

www.nikolamihov.com

Tito MOURAZ“Casa das Sete Senhoras” PORTUGAL

Born in 1977 in Portugal, lives and works in Porto (Portugal).

It is still said around here that the house is haunted. In this house lived seven ladies, all maiden sisters. One of them was a witch. I spent a lot of time around the house of the seven ladies, chatting, trying to imagine what it was like before me, listening. I started by doing some portraits of people. I found them fascinating because, having always lived there, they are rooted to this land just like trees. I decided to document the evolution of this land. This series gives an account of a persistent return to the same place, so as to scrutinize its evolution (deactivation of agricultural practices, gradual transformation of the land, aging of the population...). Just like in legends, maybe because of this place’s magical and appalling features, this cyclical experience turned up into becoming my greatest wound. This place was a place of affections. After all, I was also born there too !

www.titomouraz.com





Alexandra POLINA “Generation 60” UZBEKISTAN

Born in 1984 in Uzbekistan, lives and works in Bielefeld (Germany).

The impact of relocating to a new country is directly proportional to the immigrant’s age : the older he/she is the bigger is the struggle to intake the amount of new impressions and to alter the familiar ways of living. The protagonists of these pictures are very aware of this - every single one came to Germany when they were already in their sixties. This series tries to demonstrate the inner world of the characters and the way they face the challenge of being trapped between the past and the present.

www.alexandrapolina.com

Rita PUIG-SERRA COSTA “Where Mimosa Bloom” SPAIN

Born in 1985 in Spain, lives and works in à Barcelona (Spain). This series traces a walk across the memory. It tries to remember a mother who is no longer here through objects, persons and moments, which take us directly to her person. That’s an homage of Rita to her mother Yolanda. An attempt to assemble in a book her familiar universe.

www.ritapuigserra.com





Laurence RASTI “There are no homosexuals in Iran” SWITZERLAND

Born in 1990 in Switzerland, lives and works in Geneva (Switzerland).

An individual is defined by his identity. In some countries, however, one’s freedom of choosing its own identity is withdrawn by local authorities. In these cases, there are no other choices than fleeing. In Denizli, a small town in Turkey, hundreds of Iranian gay refugees are in transit: they put their lives on hold, hoping to reach one day, a host country where they can freely live their sexualities. This work questions the fragile identity and gender concepts. In this context of uncertainty, this work gives back to these people the identity their country has temporarily stolen.

www.laurencerasti.chSELECTION OF THE JURY

Torsten SCHUMANN“For Tomorrow” GERMANY

Born in 1975 in Germany, lives and works in Berlin (Germany).

Once, when taking photographs in a large, hectic city, I was stopped by a woman who, in a somewhat perplexed manner, asked me what it was I was photographing. “A squirrel”, I replied. The woman, surprised, couldn’t see a squirrel anywhere. Nevertheless, she nodded in satisfaction and went on her way.

www.torstenschumann.de




ULYSSE & DARCOE (Ulysse PAYET et Isaora LE JEANNIC)“Fleur Viande” FRANCE

Ulysse Payet is born in 1979 and Isaora Le Jeannic in 1987 in France. The duo was founded in 2013, they live and work in Paris (France).

This series mostly tries to master an absurd subject. Meat Flower is the meeting of an antinomy by shape and inspiration that tends to create a coherent and aesthetically pleasing whole, a new entity. It’s not about a flower or meat anymore but meat flower; a whole carried by a meticulous work of post-production that gives the pictures the feel of a drawing or a painting. The Ulysse and Darcoe duo also give the subject they chose a universal reach that allows a wider reading of the picture: a portrayal of nature or the symbolism of organs and flowers, it’s up to the viewer to choose.

www.ulyssedarcoe.com


Lonneke VAN DER PALEN “Souvenir” NETHERLANDS

Born in 1985 in Netherlands, lives and works in La Haye (Netherlands).

The series “Souvenir: Memories of a journey never made” is the result of a staged journey inspired by the ultimate clichés among travel photography. The posing in stunning landscapes, sunsets, wild animals, exotic food, the indigenous population: they almost become icons. By recreating these images, photography enables me to visit distant worlds and gather souvenirs of a journey that has never been made. Why buy expensive flight tickets, when I can accomplish the same with my imagination ? Using a camera, I don’t have to leave my house to experiences life’s visual marvels.

www.lonnekevanderpalen.comSELECTION OF THE JURY



Franky VERDICKT“The South Street Village” BELGIUM

Born in 1971 in Belgium, lives and works à Brussels (Belgium).

« Cities, as in dreams, are built out of desires and fears », writes Italo Calvino in The invisible Cities. Nanjiecun (« The South Street Village ») continues to be run on Maoist egalitarian lines. The project shows the only Maoist village in China where the people are mere background actors in a giant epic story. A place where the community is the producer of their own happiness, where people receive free housing, electricity and receive free healthcare. The Nanjiecun village promotes itself as a brand for real communist ideology in the land of Mao Zedong. The project was created in cooperation with the inhabitants of this village.

www.frankyverdickt.beSELECTION OF THE JURY



ARTISTS INVITED BY NATHALIE HERSCHDORFER : 2015 SPONSOR’S EDITION

Salvi DANÉS“Black Ice, Moscow” SPAIN

Born in 1985 in Spain, lives and works in Barcelona (Spain).

A thin and an invisible ice layer, which makes the free movement difficult. An invisible barrier which has a fearful influence on us when moving from one place to another. Leaning in a kind of imaginary wall which makes our path easier and which makes decisions for us. The city is an alien nucleus, full of companions, but empty of partners, transported by an intangible flow. Moscow is the Soviet paradigm, an enormous city. It looks like there is a dislocation in its inhabitants due to the impact of a complex reality, of the result of a convulsed history, which has gone from the tsarist feudalism to the dictatorship of the proletariat, and from communism to the recent economic liberalism. Nowadays, it is not completely different. Puttin is carrying out a kind of politics based on the accumulation of power and on the concentration of powers in the Russian Federation instead of a real democracy.

www.salvidanes.com

Ola LANKO“Kids” UKRAINE

Born in 1985 in Ukraine, lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands).

These series consist of 25 portraits of teenagers taken on the roller coaster without them being aware of me observing and photographing. My project investigates the ability of photography to de-contextualize the subject from its environment. And by the means of this I explore the possible occurrence of a new meaning. “Kids” depicting an uncontrolled stream of emotions in a teenager. The visual language of these photographs refers to propaganda posters used extensively in 1920-30’s by the Soviet authorities and constructivists.

www.olalanko.com

FREE HAND

FREE HAND



Cyril PORCHET“Crowd” SWITZERLAND

Born in 1984 in Switzerland, lives and works in Lausanne (Switzerland).

In an era where everything seems to move towards globalization, Cyril Porchet chose folkloric gatherings. In an era where everything seems to move towards globalization, a particular force comes out of them. Clan gatherings, color casts, this relationship with tradition, everything is part of the different tones and the mix of crowds.The technical obligations were important, it took the artist a lot of time to define an appropriate posture. But he now manages to anticipate the photogenic character of a gathering according to its population density, its colors and its movement.

www.cyrilporchet.com

WASSINKLUNDGREN (Thijs groot Wassink et Ruben Lundgren)“Tokyo Tokyo”UNITED KINGDOM

Thijs groot Wassink is born in 1981 and Ruben Lundgren in 1983 both in Netherlands. Ones lives and works in London (United Kingdom) and the other in Beijing (China).

The same subjects, photographed at the same moment, but from a different angle. That is the simple recipe for this body of work. The diptychs are the outcome of a number of long walks through the many neighbourhoods of Tokyo. A contemporary version of stereo photography.

www.wassinklundgren.com

FREE HAND

FREE HAND



THE SCHOOL’S GUESTS : FOCUS ATHENS SCHOOL OF ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

Xenia NASELOU“Random summer moments” GREECE

Born in 1989 in Greece, lives and works in Athens (Greece).

These photos were taken last summer with my mobile phone. I started taking pictures to test my phone’s camera without having to carry my camera, lenses and tripod around. A device that you carry with you all the time, that helps you capture random moments of your life, instantly. Although I wasn’t amazed by the quality of the images, I soon realised the magic and significance of the content and duration that each picture was taken.A photographer is not an “expensive camera”. Every single photo is a story of thoughts, feelings and aesthetics that can surpass the means deemed necessary for an important picture.

www.xenianaselou.com

Ioannis STEFANIDIS“Mother” GREECE

Born in 1973 in in Greece, lives and works in Athens (Greece).

Mrs. Olga was born in Thessaloniki in 1938. She got married at the age of 34 and moved in with her husband in Elefsina. They had 3 children together. In 1990 her husband died. She then had to attend to her family’s needs on her own. Despite the health problems, the loneliness and the memories she’s still happy and thankful for what life and experience brought her throughout the years.Ioannis Stefanidis started taking pictures of her during his visits to her home, her “kingdom”, as if he were keeping a diary. He tried to become as invisible as possible in order to record her moves and feelings, all those details that count for him. He photographed her the same way he would have photographed his own mother.

www.ioannisstefanidis.tumblr.com

SCHOOL GUEST

SCHOOL GUEST



THE GALLERY’S GUESTS : BREADFIELD

Erik ÖSTENSSON“The Circle and the Line” SWEDEN

Born in 1978 in Sweden, lives and works in Stockholm (Sweden).

When looking at our surroundings, we fill it with our own notions. The objects or bodies are still there in front of us and are what they are no matter what we think about them. Without these simplifications, we would not be able to operate within the world’s complexity. But at the same it makes us see or experience only a very small part of our environment. Based on this, I want to create images where the viewer can see it all again. I do this by depicting objects from a new angle and by putting them in a new context. Past notions are replaced and the meanings of familiar objects expand.

www.erikostensson.com

Jenny ROVA “I would also like to be” SUÈDE

Born in 1972 in Sweden, lives and works in Zurich (Switzerland) since 2001.

I’m following and spying on my ex boyfriend and his new girlfriend. I ‘m spying on them through Facebook, downloading all the pictures of themselves they have been uploading there. I’m placing myself in the “new girlfriend”’s position, imitating her poses, expressions and dressing myself in the same outfit as her. Then I’m photographing myself in the same light as in their pictures. I finally glue my figure on top of the original picture, covering the new girlfriend. By doing this, I compose a dream of my own on top of theirs. During the process of taking the new girlfriends poses, I’m once again, briefly, part of my ex lover’s life. I then imagine how it would be to be her. « I would also like to be, A work on jealousy » is a book with 47 photo collages.

www.jennyrova.net

GALLERY GUEST

GALLERY GUEST



THE INVITED ARTIST

Nicoló DEGIORGIS“Hidden Islam” ITALY

Born in 1985 in Italy, lives and works in Bolzano (Italy).

In Italy, it’s utterly difficult for Muslim to exercise their collective Islamic religious rights, even more in the north-east of the country, stronghold of the Northern League, a political movement that has gained mainstream political popularity through its campaign against immigration. This project investigates the realities of Islamic life in a hostile country that counts only two official mosques for more than one million Muslims. The aim of this work was to discover and document the makeshift places of worship, often based in improvised hangars, basements, garages and old supermarkets in the industrial areas of the north-east of Italy.

www.nicolodegiorgis.com

GUEST ARTIST

Philippe DOLLO“Aître Sudète” FRANCE

Born in 1965 in France, lives and works in London (United Kingdom).

« Phillipe Dollo offers us a search for this civilization swallowed by collective amnesia, mistreated by History’s bumps, and he is patient enough to let us discover step by step, almost by transparence, the outline of this presence torn down from the heart of a contemporary Europe struggling with itself and with the ghosts of the past which are ready to reappear.» Sébastien Durrmeyer

www.philippedollo.com

GUEST ARTIST



David FATHI“Anecdotal” FRANCE

Born in 1985 in France, lives and works in Paris (France).

In our collective psyche, the nuclear age corresponds to the explosion of two atomic bombs : Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, since 1945, there have been more than 2000 nuclear explosions in the world. Since the end of World War II, the nuclear powers have methodically bombed their own territories. Self-mutilation in the name of self-defense.This body of work has as a starting point some little known anecdotes about nuclear testing programs. By mixing archive pictures, satellite images, pack shots and photographical road trips, the photographer contextualizes a story, between the hair-rising investigation and the absurd farce.All that is documented here is true but seems to be a poor fiction. Through this work, David Fathi enlightens us about the world in which we think we are living and the one we have actually built.

www.davidfathi.com

GUEST ARTIST

Dionisio GONZALEZ“Visiones de perímetro”SPAIN

Born in 1965 in Spain, lives and works in Seville (Spain).

The photographs taken of Venice are the result of prior research and investigation work which determined the exact locations of the absent architectural projects of famous architects (Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Louis Khan, Aldo Rossi). As a result they are initially photos of routing, of performance and positional precision ; their visual writing is the basis for their georeferencing. Afterwards the buildings were raised three-dimensionally using the existing drawings and plans. It’s a work of integration, of replacement, that constitutes a possible Venice or a Venice that could have been. This series of images contains the spirit of redress, of restitution and may be an archive of a possible reality.

www.dionisiogonzalez.es

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GUEST ARTIST

Audrey LAURANS“Le distributeur d’ancêtres photographiques” FRANCE

Born in 1990 in France, works and lives in Paris (France).

Family pictures are on sale in second-hand stores, car boot sales and even on the internet. We can then wonder why the owner of these pictures wants to get rid of them and on the other end what motivates a buyer to acquire pictures of strangers.Desecrated, the pictures of the ancestors are exposed to all, in this window, far from the private albums and from the intimacy of the family circle. As they have become a consumer good as much as a cereal bar, these pictures reveal the universal potential of family pictures. They are aimed at everybody.It is thus possible to make one’s own family of potential ancestors from a selection of great grand-mothers, great-uncles or imaginary cousins.

GUEST ARTIST

Grzegorz LOZNIKOW“Masters” POLAND

Born in 1987 in Poland, lives and works in Poland.

« Masters » are collages made from a German album of the Olympic Games album of 1936, that I found in my family home. It was owned by a german family who lived in the house after the Second World War. My interest is to recreate the memory of the inhabitants of the old Germany, so that these personal and collective stories do not fall into oblivion ...

www.flickr.com/photos/mr_peppino



GUEST ARTIST

Jan MASCHINSKI“Choke” GERMANY

Born in 1983 in Germany, lives and works in Bielefeld (Germany).

The series is playing with the thin line separating good taste from bad taste. It shows us familiar things put under a new light. Every picture consists of a quick intuitive idea inspired by the flood of digital images we are recieving daily from the internet and other mass-medias. « Choke » uncovers the concept of playful photography as an important area of creative process.

www.janmaschinski.com

Dita PEPE“Self-portraits with men” CZECH REPUBLIC

Born in 1973 in Czech Republic, works and lives in Frydlant (Czech Republic).

« What would it be like if I had been born in another place, differently, to different people? What would I be like today ? What would my life be like ? For me, photography is a means of communication not only with myself but also a means by which I talk to people, ask questions, offer answers, respond, feel, experience, and am active. For me, photography is a way of searching. The first photographs from the Self-portraits series were made with people from my surroundings, with women who attracted me in some way, by their appearances, their lives, their behaviour, or their views. Later, I made self-portraits with men and families. I am interested in their ways of life, their values. »

www.ditapepe.cz

GUEST ARTIST



GUEST ARTIST

Camilla PONGIGLIONE“For Heart’s Sake” ITALY

Italian born in Canada, works and lives in Paris (France).

Since her childhood, Camila Pongiglione associates the heart with her father, a cardiologist. When he recovered from his heart attack in November 2012, Camila becomes aware of the fact that the heart is a complicated machine that moves passions. She starts drawing it under the shape of anatomies, to show its malformations and associates pictures with a metaphorical aim to it. Through this book’s design, she tries to materialize what happened to her father and what happened in her at this moment.

www.camillapongiglione.com

Jan ROSSEEL“Belgian Autumn” BELGIUM

Born in 1979 in Belgium, lives and works in La Haye (Netherlands).

In the beginning of the 1980’s, Belgium was shaken by a series of violent robberies, committed by a group of unknown criminals referred to as “The Brabant Killers”. Overall, twenty-eight people lost their lives. My father was one of them. This period of terror and violence will remain one of the darkest pages in Belgian history. The case will be closed in 2015. The serie is largely based on an interpretation of witness accounts, police reports and interviews linked to this period. It questions the reliability of our personal and collective memory. Composed of photography, video and objects, the project is based on long-term research, investigations and interviews, always referring to the notion of memory and the complexity of witness.

www.janrosseel.com

GUEST ARTIST



GUEST ARTIST

Aldo SOLIGNO“Let them show their faces” ITALY

Born in 1983 in Italy, lives and works in Milan (Italy).

Everything has changed In Uganda on the 24th of February 2014, when the anti-gay law had been approved. Stays S., 30 years: “Now I live in constant fear that someone will knock on my door and arrest me, or worse, make me disappear”. This law entitles authorities to sentence anyone accused of homosexuality oto penalties that can go up to life imprisonment. After approval of the law, all major tabloids in the country published hundreds of photographs of suspected homosexuals and gay activists under the title “Hang them.” For this project, the photographer asked the Ugandan LGBT activists to pose from behind and up against the light, creating what could be a hypothetical negative of the images published as defamatory by the tabloid press in the country. www.aldosoligno.com

GUEST ARTIST

THE COOL COUPLE (Niccolò BENETTON et Simone SANTILLI)“Approximation to the West”ITALY

Niccola Benetton is born in 1986 and Simone Santilli in 1987 in Italy. The duo was founded in 2012, they live and work in Milan (Italy).

The project seeks to reveal instances of forgotten pasts through collection and redissemination of historical information and the use of photography, drawing, installation and archiving tactics. In “Approximation To The West”, the artist’s address a series of events from the end of WWII, when Cossacks from Caucasus, allied with the III Reich, invaded the Carnia region in Northern Italy. The occupation lasted until April 1945. The occupiers were then traded by the Allied forces in exchange of hundreds of thousands of British prisoners of war held by the Soviets. The photographs are presented alongside documents and supporting material contextualizing the incident.

www.thecoolcouple.co.uk



Catrine VAL“Philosophers”GERMANY

Born in 1970 in Germany, lives and works in Cassel (Germany).

In “Philosophers”, I examine the loss of connection to nature in our modern, technically driven world. A longing for nature, as a fixed reference point and an intact romantic worldview in which man and nature are in harmony, is facing an accelerating demise in our fully digitized age. By referring to the external visual similarities of philosophers, a reference to the historical philosopher, which incorporates his life and work, is made.The concept of “philosophers” is a quest for a new terminology and a new grammar of thinking about contemporary art and focus on a new meaning of vision and gender.

www.catrineval.deGUEST ARTIST



ARTISTS OF THE EXHIBITION HORS LES MURS : GARE DU NORD

Karolin KLÜPPEL“Mädchenland” GERMANY

Born in 1985 in Germany, lives and works in Berlin (Germany).

In the state of Meghalaya in India, the indigenous people of the Khasi form the majority of the population. The Khasi are a matrilineal society. Here, traditionally it is girls who are of particularly importance and who play an exposed role in the family. The line of succession passes through the youngest daughter. If she marries, her husband is taken into her family’s house, and the children take their mother’s name. For “Mädchenland” Küppel spent nine months in the village of Mawlynnong in north-east India, home to around five hundred people. Instead of presenting a broad-based analysis of these social structures and illustrating the positions and roles of girls, in this series the photographer concentrates on the girls themselves in contextualising them in their everyday physical environment through a sensitive balance between documentation and composition.

www.karolinklueppel.de

Charlotte LYBEER“The Furtastic Adventures of The Cabbit and The Folf” BELGIUM

Born in 1981 in Belgium, lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium).

The series ‘The Furtastic Adventures of The Cabbit and The Folf’ emphasis on the furry fandom and consists of ‘fan groups’ of anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities. Lybeer photographed Belgian, Dutch, French and German members of the furry fandom. In those twenty portraits, she has taken back the so called furries to their own living rooms. The costumes that show us the participant’s character when in ‘furry mode’ clashes with the homely atmosphere that reveal small things about the participant when ‘out of character.’

www.charlottelybeer.be

HORS LES MURS

HORS LES MURS



Guillaume MARTIAL“Le Modulor” FRANCE

Born in 1985 in France, lives and works in Lyon (France).

Take a gymnasium, three gym modules (blue, red and yellow), a human figure (Guillaume Martial himself) and you’ll get THE MODULOR. The Modulor is an architectural unit measurement invented by Le Corbusier in 1945. According to the architect, it would allow maximum comfort in the relationship between man and his living space … In a physical play with space, Guillaume Martial revisits this notion and questions its meaning and our relationship with architecture. Resulting in a new way of reading: absurd, surreal and comical … [Work created as part of an artist residency in a school - With the help of the general council department of Hérault - College Fontcarrade Montpellier France]

www.guillaumemartial.fr

HORS LES MURS



5. ORGANIZATION

Association under the Act of 1901, recognized as being of public benefit, Fetart aims to promote emerging photographers by giving them a first opportunity to exhibit their work, by organizing cultural events. Springboard for launching the careers of photographers, the association has revealed many talents and has provided them a first foothold in the art market.

Since its creation in 2005, Fetart’s team, which includes a dozen of enthusiasts of art photography, has organized more than 30 exhibitions with over a hundred of French and European artists. The network of contacts established by Fetart with schools, magazines or galleries of photographs will be strengthened in order to create a real impulse around European photography.

This desire to open up on Europe has led Fetart to create in 2009 the “Entrevues”, a fresh online perspective on the work of two European photographers and to launch in 2011 edition of Circulation (s) festival of young European photography which take place in Paris since its opening.

www.fetart.org www.festival-circulations.com



6. FESTIVAL’S PARTNERS



6. PARTNERS

Partners who support us :

DIMEZZO

GESTION DE LIEUX ATYPIQUES ET RARESSOUTIEN DE PROJETS ARTISTIQUES

encart pub mars 2010.ai

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PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

Circulation(s), festival of young european photographyFrom january 24 to march 8 2015 at CENTQUATRE-PARIS.CENTQUATRE, 5 rue Curial 75019 Paris

From Tuesday to Friday from 1a.m. to 7p.m.Weekend from 12a.m. to 7p.m.Closed on MondaysFree accessAccess for late performance : 5 rue Curial entry only

ACCESS

Metro : Riquet (line 7)Stalingrad (lines 2, 5 et 7)Marx Dormoy (line 12)

OPENING

PRESS OPENING : January, Friday 23 from 10am to 1pmPUBLIC OPENING : January, Saturday 24 from 3pm to 7pm followed by the Bal Pop’ from 7pm

AROUND THE FESTIVAL

Signature of Clément Huylenbroeck for his THIS IS NOT A MAPJanuary, saturday 24 / 4pm / Atelier 7 / Free

Round table and projection in partnership with the Maison du Geste et de L’Image January, saturday 31 / from 11:30am to 1:30pm / and then from 2pm to 5pm / Room 200 / Free

Fetart Academy #3 From february, tuesday 3 to friday 6 / from 12am to 2:30pm / Atelier 7 / Free

JEEP - European Days of Photography SchoolFrom february, friday 27 to sunday 1st marchwww.j-e-e-p.eu

Portfolio reviewFebruary, saturday 28 and march, sunday 1st / from 2pm to 6pm / Ecuries Sud

Digigraphie® workshop partnership with EpsonFebruary, saturday 28 and march, sunday 1st / from 3pm to 7pm / Place des Ecuries / Free

Fetart Academy #4 March, saturday 7 / from 2pm to 4:30pm / Atelier 7 / Free

6 MOIS Magazine - Preview of the #9 March, saturday 7 / from 6pm to 7:30 / Atelier 7 / Free



WEBSITES

Circulation(s) Festival : www.festival-circulations.com

CENTQUATRE-PARIS : www.104.fr

European Days of Photography School : www.j-e-e-p.eu

Circulagram : www.circulagram.com

Fetart : www.fetart.org

SOCIAL NETWORKS

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Twitter : Fetart (@fetartparis)

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