Rue de l’Étoile Bleue, nine views at the Echelles de la Ville in Montpellier

After the Boutographies last month, here is another opportunity to discover different photographers whose work is highlighted in the same space. This is located at the Echelles de la Ville, where the exhibition takes place until Saturday Rue de l’Etoile Bleue. It is supported by Transit Photographies, formerly the Transit collective.

The origin of the project dates back to Montpellier’s candidacy for the title of European Capital of Culture. The members of the Transit collective then associated around forty photographs taken in France and Europe with the streets of Montpellier. Installed in public spaces, they invited residents to travel without leaving their city.

An exhibition to see and hear

It is again this motionless journey that is proposed, but this time with half of the photographs grouped together in the same place. The journey is also sonic, because each photo is accompanied by a QR code giving access to a creation imagined by Laurie Bellanca, who has constructed stories combining literary extracts, readings and sound creations. For Valentine Pignet, artistic director: “The interest in bringing together all these works today in this exhibition space is that few people had the opportunity to see the entire journey in the streets.”

Nine photographers, nine writings

With these nine photographers, five of whom come from the historic Transit collective, there are so many aesthetics to discover as their worlds are so different. Alexa Brunet cultivates a taste for dystopian staging, with a picnic where the guests wear gas masks or plants under a cover observed by children. David Richard went to meet both a passionate about Back to the future and his DeLorean as fans of wheeling. Elsewhere, matter is transformed: snow with bathers plunging into icy water, a building collapsing in a cloud of dust or even the salt accumulated at the bottom of a dried-up lake.

Connections between Montpellier and the world

In terms of connections, there are numerous references: avenue de Vert-Bois is associated with a cliché of roots, rue de l’Étoile-Bleue with a gymnast suspended in the air, impasse Plaisance with the view of an industrial port. Certain photographic writings are particularly asserted. It will perhaps be difficult to recognize the Lez photographed by Cyprus Cornut, who transforms his image into a painting with desaturated tones, between 19th century pictorialist photography and classic landscape painting. contrasted to photograph a fisherman on a pond in Palavas Which shows that journeys are not always far away.

Until Saturday June 13, from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Échelles de la Ville, Montpellier. Free entry.