CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION - URBEX

📅 Rendezvous on Saturday, April 12 at 3 p.m. à FLUCTUART for a unique conference on urban exploration! Three speakers will share their visions of URBEX through their practices and research during a conference that will take place in the exhibition hold from 3pm to 4:30pm. Three complementary perspectives on urbex: Aude Le Gallou explores photography as an academic research method, Diane Dufraisy navigates between documentary approach and artistic creation, while Chrixcel revisits this practice through the prism of urban art in the wasteland.

🖼 Expo : We also invite you to discover a selection of 12 photographic prints by these artists in the Bookshop

 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS :

Diane DUFRAISY : Photographer, digital artist and explorer, she brings to light the little-known interstices of urban life through an approach that is both documentary and dreamlike. Passionate about history, she explores underground, abandoned or inaccessible places to bear witness to this forgotten heritage.
Her work revolves around two complementary axes:

• Documentary - Preserving the memory of these spaces by capturing their history before they disappear.
• Dreamlike - Bringing these neglected places back to life by transforming them through staging and imagination.

Aude Le Gallou: Urbexer and geography researcher, she uses urbex as an object and method in her research. She is interested in what this practice reveals about the social and spatial issues crystallized by the abandonment of places, and what it says about our relationship with marginal spaces. Photography is an integral part of this approach, enabling her to explore these issues in a sensitive, embodied way.

Chrixcel: Passionate urban art since 2007. An author and photographer in the field, from 2011 to date she has published over twenty works, including nine monographs and two fine books with Critères Éditions (Opus collection). With Alternatives, she has co-written Le bestiaire fantastique du street art (2018) and Street Illusions (2020) with Codex Urbanus. She is co-author with Thom Thom of Guide du Street Art Paris (ed. 2022 and 2024). Her latest book, Tribunes Urbaines, was published by Alternatives in late 2023. Occasionally writing various texts (biographies, exhibition catalogs and press releases) for galleries, she has been collaborating with Graffiti Art Magazine since summer 2022 as a reporter-journalist. Alongside her writing activities on street art/graffiti, she has been practicing urbex photography for 15 years.