La Nuit des images is making its big return to Lausanne, after five years of absence. The festive event takes over the Plateforme 10 site on Saturday, where Photo Elysée has made its mark in 2022. With a bountiful menu which includes a jumble of projections on the facades, an exhibition by photographer Sabine Weiss, free entry to the three museums, music and entertainment.
After years in the gardens of the former Elysée Museum, the Plateforme 10 Arts District will serve for the first time as the setting for this photography festival. From 6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., a multitude of activities and then screenings are on the menu.
This tenth edition will be spread across the entire site near the station, and will take over spaces little used until now, such as the roof terrace of Photo Elysée and mudac (design). Projections will illuminate the facades of the two buildings on the site, including that of the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (MCBA).
War and Night
The evening’s key guest, French photographer Antoine d’Agata (1961), member of the Magnum agency, will present a slideshow mixing 30 years of practice, between war news and nocturnal snapshots of the outcasts and those left behind. After the screening, he will look back on his career during an interview with Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of Photo Elysée.
Debi Cornwall, winner of the 2023 Prix Elysée, will present her work on the staging of reality and the blurred line between truth and fiction. Also on the program, Cian Oba-Smith, Yuyan Wang, Matthieu Nicol, Antoine Martin and Nikita Teryoshin.
New exhibition
On the occasion of the Night of Images, Photo Elysée unveils an exhibition dedicated to Sabine Weiss (1924-2021), to mark the centenary of the artist’s birth. The museum invited the French visual artist Nathalie Boutté to dialogue with her work.
La Nuit des images is also a multitude of activities, sometimes playful. The installation “Exquisite Corpse” by photographers Jaap Scheeren and Luke Stephenson invites the public to take part in the surrealist game, the exquisite corpse. The musician My Name is Fuzzy offers to climb into his electric cart transformed into a discotheque for one person.
In a participatory mode, Damjanski offers a monumental and hypnotic animation. And from the entrance to the site, DJ sets will welcome the public throughout the evening.
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