Contrastes : Avignon à travers deux siècles de photographies

Through their choices of framing and composition, as well as their interest in the subjects captured, each photographer conveys a "wordless discourse" about Avignon, its inhabitants, and its era. "Contrasts" questions Avignon's identity, playing with stereotypes and exploring its legacies and transformations over (almost) 200 years.
The exhibition focuses on the contradictions, anachronisms, and antinomic compositions that emerge in the image or in the juxtaposition of several archival photographs. With sensitivity, this visual and temporal journey reveals the plural and complex character of Avignon: a human-scale city, inhabited and vibrant, the product of heritage, adaptation, and reconciliation in the face of the tensions that run through it.

A city that delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait through its photographic history.

An exhibition in an archipelago
Main site: Avignon municipal archives (inner courtyard and streets)
6 rue Saluces
But also on 6 other sites:
→ Gates of the Agricol-Perdiguier square
Jean-Jaurès course
→ Gates of the Cantonne Park
Avenue des Vertes-Rives (Montfavet)
→ Moucharabieh of the nautical stadium,
Pierre-de-Coubertin Avenue
→ Gates of the Palace of the Popes
Place de l'Amirande
→ Gates of the Abbaye-Saint-Ruf park
Avenue du Moulin-Notre-Dame
→ Champfleury Park Gates
Laundry Avenue

Free.