@Rosangela Renno Wins 2023 Women In Motion Award For Photography by @Kering x @Les Rencontres d’Arles
Rosângela Rennó, the acclaimed Brazilian photographer, will be presented with the 2023 Women In Motion Award for photography by Kering and Les Rencontres d’Arles on July 4th at the Théâtre Antique d’Arles. During the soirée, Rennó will showcase her work and share her personal journey and perspectives on women’s place in photography and society. The event will be accompanied by a monographic exhibition at La Mécanique Générale in Arles, the first major monograph organized in France on the artist.
Rennó’s work explores time, memory, and the psychological and social effects of forgetting. She appropriates and transforms archival photographic materials into art installations or photography books, exposing the way the system manipulates or erases links with the past.
Rosângela Rennó was born in 1962 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Her work on photographs, objects and installations is characterized by the investigation of different politics of the photographic representation and absorption and of the relations between memory and forgetfulness, by appropriating images from diverse sources, from fleamarkets and internet photos to institutional archives. Precarious, abandoned photographic archives and even ‘dead files’ have led her to engage herself on clarifying and fighting the recurring narratives of erasure and ‘structural ignorance,’ used as a strategy of historical amnesia and exclusion of a large part of the population, especially in Brazil and South Global countries. She also dedicates herself to the creation of videos and artist’s books, always in the same conceptual basis.
The Women In Motion Award for Photography, which has celebrated an outstanding photographer’s career annually since 2019, comes with an endowment for the chosen artist to acquire their works for the Rencontres d’Arles collection. Previous recipients include Susan Meiselas, Sabine Weiss, Liz Johnson Artur, and Babette Mangolte.
Women In Motion is also supporting the exhibition “La Pointe courte, Des Photographies au Film,” featuring photographs taken by Agnès Varda in 1954, before and during the shooting of her film La Pointe courte. The exhibition will take place at the Cloître Saint-Trophime during the Rencontres d’Arles. Varda has been a key figure in the Women In Motion program since its inception in 2015, embodying the spirit of the initiative with her passion, imagination, and commitment to feminist causes.
Kering luxury group and Les Rencontres d’Arles will continue their partnership for another five years as a Major Partner of the festival, starting in 2024. In addition to its sponsorship of the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Award, which supports emerging female talent, Kering launched the Women In Motion photography program in Arles in 2019. The Women In Motion LAB also provides funding for long-term projects highlighting women in photography.
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