Marked by the incredible success of the 2016 edition at the CENQUATRE-PARIS with more than 50.000 visitors, the Circulation(s) festival is coming back from January 21st to March 5th 2017 as a central exhibition of the CENTQUATRE-PARIS and joins forces with the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.
Dedicated to young European photography, Circulation(s) festival offers for the seventh consecutive year a crossed perspective of Europe through photography. Its aim is to help the talents of young European photographers become visible and to allow their contemporary and artistic creations to be discovered. The program is articulated around a selection from a jury out of an international call for applications, of guest Estonian Temnikova & Kasela Gallery art gallery and guest ENSP-Arles art school, and a carte blanche of this edition’s sponsor, the Director of ThMP Hercules Papaioannou.
This year’s godfather, Hercules Papaioannou, chose to invite four Greek photographers: Kostis Argyriadis, Petros Koublis, Yannis Pantelidis, Thodoris Papadakis.
To highlight the plurality of photographic writing that can be observed in various festivals in France and Europe, Circulation(s) invited nearly twenty festivals to share their favorites. Young, talented photographers, with their own identity, show the diversity of European photography today. A total of 47 photographers will present their work through expositions, screenings and installations, while the program includes outside exhibitions and Little Circulation(s), an exhibition entirely dedicated to kids between 5 and 12 years old.

For further information and detailed biographies please refer to the website www.festival-circulations.com

CIRCULATION(S), A EUROPEAN FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHY
JANUARY 21st – MARCH 5th, 2017
CENTQUATRE-PARIS, 5 RUE CURIAL 75 019 PARIS
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*Following is the text of ThMP Director

IN AND/OR OUT

Photography is a seemingly simple medium that often addresses complex issues, surveying the most diverse scientific fields and cultural practices. It is also a medium inescapably related to social and political issues, even when this is not easily observable, maybe then even more. Landscape has been treated heavily and for long for its aesthetic mostly qualities, neglecting the fact that it is almost constantly a place of conflict, personal or collective, visible or invisible. The photographers of this exhibition follow a thin line that starts from natural landscape, with no discernible trace of human activity, in the work of Petros Koublis (In Landscapes, 2012-2015). His approach echoes something esoteric, although his foggy and dark landscapes look rather ominous. The work of Yannis Pantelidis (Nothing Personal, 2010-2015), deals with the border zone between city and nature, where dystopic and lyric views alternate in the most immediate, abrupt way, in what seems like a depository zone of whatever is needed at a close distance or has to be kept away from the urban milieu. Kostis Argyriadis in his ongoing series Oxymoron reveals aspects of the inner city, through often uneasy compositions, compressed tones and stark contrasts, as a contested topos with no place for the eye to rest. Finally, Thodoris Papadakis (Home Again, 2015) explores the boundary between public and private space in the urban environment, calling us to rethink and reinhabit it physically and spiritually. It is difficult to tell whether such a balance can be finally achieved and in what terms exactly Home can be thought of now, in and/or out of the city. A re-appreciation of the landscape and our place in it, in more critical terms, is undoubtedly a valuable step in looking for such a balance. And photography, despite its omnipresence in many and often contradictory fields and applications, still proposes itself as a powerful medium for the process of that re-appreciation.

Hercules Papaioannou