Vue d'exposition sur les Berges de l'Ill, 2024, photographie de Paul Gaffney © Malo le Bayon
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In February 2025, Mulhouse Photography Biennial and Mulhouse Art Contemporain launched a call for entries for a solo exhibition. The exhibition will take place from June 2025 to July 2026 in the public space of an urban park in Mulhouse, and will be part of the 7th edition of the BPM, Sedimentation(s). In previous editions of the festival, this site has hosted photographs by Céline Clanet, Jessica Auer, Manon Lanjouère, David de Beyter, Geert Goiris, Matthew Genitempo, Rebecca Topakian...
The call for entries invited photographers who explore the past and present, and those interested in both geological and memorial excavations. Works were requested to cover terrestrial and mental geographies, drawing on notions of sedimentation, stratification, matter-flux, and the plasticity of collective and individual memories. Proposals could interweave individual and collective, human and non-human narratives.
The jury's members :
-Aurélia Marcadier, art historian, director of PhotoSaintGermain, member of Les Filles de la Photo - Matthieu Lelièvre, art historian and curator, head of collections at Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (macLYON)
- Terri Weifenbach, photographer
- Philippe Schweyer, editor at Mediapop
- Dominique Bannwarth, president of Mulhouse Art Contemporain
- Anne Immelé, PhD, director of BPM
Out of 386 proposals, 20 artists have been pre-selected :
Sophie Alyz, Alex Cabrera , Lucas Castel, Pablo Castilla, François Deladerrière, Marilia Destot, Marjorie Gosset, Julie Hascoët, Ilanit Illouz, Helen Jones, François Jonquet, Coline Jourdan, Ruth Lauer-Manenti, Duy-Phuong Le Nguyen, Yvette Monahan, Chrystel Mukeba, Dalmonia Rognean, Alnis Stakle, Roselyne Titaud, Margot Wallard
We applaud the high quality of their work, and their resonance with the festival's next edition theme.
Congratulations to them, and to all the other applicants!
Pablo Castilla was chosen as the winner of the call with his series Altiplano.
Exhibition's opening on Sunday, June 15 2025 at 11 am !
Berges de l’Ill/ Quai des Cigognes, Mulhouse (near " la Maison des Berges")
The “Altiplano” is one of the least populated areas in South Spain, a vast and arid region that the photographer has been exploring since 2015. Today desertified, this territory was home to a rich ecosystem millions of years ago. Archaeological digs have uncovered traces of animal species that are now extinct, as well as those of the first human communities to settle in Europe. Guided by a shaman through the underground and spiritual world, Pablo Castilla wanted to put the surface landscape into dialogue with this other layer of reality.
Born in Spain in 1980, Pablo Castilla lives and works in Norway. His work is based on the direct exploration of reality and encoded in a documentary-based language through various disciplines such as cinema, performing arts and photography. He was recently working as photo conservator at the National Library of Norway, leading a project for the preservation of the historical solar observation photographs. He is currently the recipient of a 1-year artist stipend by the Norwegian Directorate for Culture.
Pablo Castilla, Altiplano, 2015 - ongoing