Jeu de Paume: a journey through changing landscapes
Until March 23, 2025, the Jeu de Paume is hosting the second edition of its festival dedicated to new images. Entitled Paysages Mouvants, this event features artists exploring the transformations of our environment through photography, video and installation. An immersive experience not to be missed.
A not-to-be-missed event for lovers of images and reflection
Since last year, the Jeu de Paume, a Parisian institution renowned for its commitment to photography and the visual arts, has been organizing a festival dedicated to new image forms. After a first edition focused on the ways in which the visible appears, this second opus, directed by curator Jeanne Mercier, concentrates on the mutations of landscapes.
The festival is more than just an exhibition: it’s a true sensory and intellectual journey, where scriptwriter Loo Hui Phang accompanies visitors with an immersive narrative. Far from mere aesthetic contemplation, Paysages Mouvants questions the transformation of territories and the relationship between man and his environment, blending poetic vision, ecological commitment and collective memory.
Artists committed to world upheaval
The selection of fifteen artists featured in this year’s festival reflects a multi-faceted, committed approach to the representation of landscape. Among them, several outstanding works stand out.
Julian Charrière opens the festival with images from his film An Invitation to Disappear (2018). This fascinating work plunges into a dystopian aesthetic, evoking the destruction of ecosystems through anxious, hypnotic landscapes. Inspired by Turner and Friedrich, the artist highlights man’s impact on forests and polar zones. Prune Phi, an artist of Vietnamese origin, presents an original installation entitled .cóm. Through a series of photographs and archives, she weaves a tale of colonial migration and the memory of agricultural territories, linking the rice paddies of Vietnam to the cultivated lands of southern France.
Thomas Struth is exhibiting a monumental work in which he questions our idealized vision of tropical forests. His photographs, at once sublime and disturbing, play on the contrast between beauty and ecological threat. Mathieu Pernot presents Atlas en mouvement (2022), a collective work combining astronomy, botany and migration. The project follows the journey of Muhammad Ali Sammuneh, a Syrian astronomer in exile, through photographs of the sky taken at various stages of his journey from Aleppo to Paris.
Through their singular perspectives, these artists lead us to re-evaluate our relationship with landscape and changing spaces.
Three weekends of performances and screenings
In addition to the exhibition, the Jeu de Paume offers a lively program over three weekends, with artistic performances, screenings and creative workshops.
Choreographer Jeanne Alechinsky invests spaces with performances in which the body becomes an extension of the landscape. Filmmaker Driss Aroussi presents a series of short films exploring the transformation of urban and natural territories. Cyanotype workshops enable participants to experiment with the imprint of landscape on paper, using an ancient photographic technique.
This dynamic of exchanges and encounters makes the Paysages Mouvants festival an event at the crossroads of the arts, sciences and collective memory.
Why miss this edition?
If you’re passionate aboutcontemporary art, photography or ecology, this festival is a unique opportunity to discover powerful, committed visual creations. Far from a simple aesthetic panorama, Paysages Mouvants invites us to reflect on the evolution of the world and our role as spectators and actors of change.
📅 Moving Landscape Festival
📍 Jeu de Paume, Paris 8e
📆 February 7 to March 23, 2025
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