The Luxembourg Photography Award, organised by the Lët’z Arles association, enables the winner to take part in the photography festival Rencontres d’Arles and present a solo exhibition. This year, the jury selected Carine Krecké’s “Perdre le Nord” project. The exhibition is curated by , director of the Casino Luxembourg--Forum d’art contemporain, , head of the photography department at the Centre national de l’audiovisuel, and Elisabeth Krecké. The exhibition will take place in the Chapelle de la Charité.
Born in 1965, Carine Krecké is a Luxembourg artist and author with an interdisciplinary career spanning art, literature and geopolitics. Her work tackles themes such as mass surveillance, war, violence and terrorism. Investigative methods with forensic overtones, such as open-source data analysis and geospatial intelligence, are questioned and even hijacked in documentary projects that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, truth and lies, present and past, and even between the status of author and protagonist.
Krecké’s investigations are spread over several years, as they involve building up vast and complex archives, particularly cartographic archives. To meet the challenge of transporting technical data into the aesthetic field, the artist mobilises a panoply of media, ranging from the visual arts (photography, video, drawing, installation) to literature (novels, travel reports, theatre, poetry). Over the last twenty years, Krecké has published several books of fiction and won national literary prizes. Her conceptual and visual projects have been presented at prestigious international exhibitions.
Les Rencontres d’Arles will run from 7 July to 5 October 2025.
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