Curators : Étienne Bernard et Lilian Froger.
As part of the GLAZ Festival, whose 2025 edition explores the connection between acts of love and rebellion, the art and photography centre of Lannion, l’Imagerie, has joined up with Frac Bretagne to create an exhibition from their respective photographic collections. Titled Becoming One, this show brings together pieces, from 16 artists of different nationalities, that question how we relate to each other, share the world together, stand united, love or simply hold on.
Becoming one firstly means community, rallying together, uniting around a common cause, marching side by side in number, sticking together in the face of adversity. It is about collective political action and ordinary people seizing power.
Becoming one is also the rush of love: a way of breathing the same air, melting into one another, two bodies becoming one; a place of passion, friction and tenderness, of uprising even. Finally, becoming one, is the experience of the body being shaped, constrained or celebrated. It means what the world does to the body, through work, exhaustion or poverty or on the contrary what the body does to the world when it becomes an expressive surface, an assertion of identity or class, of memory.
The exhibition provides a sensitive and engaged journey through corporeal conditions: bodies in struggle, in unity, in love, who in turn say what it means to come together in a fractured world.
Etienne Bernard has been director of Frac Bretagne since 2019. Before that, he directed the contemporary art centre, Passerelle, in Brest (2013-2019), Fieldwork: Marfa, a residency for researchers in the United States (2010-2013) and the International Poster and Graphic Art Festival in Chaumont (2007-2009). Etienne Bernard has also taught art theory at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2008-2013) and the l’École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Nantes (2010-2013).
Lilian Froger has been director of L’Imagerie art centre in Lannion, since 2021. Before that he managed the contemporary photography collections of the Museum of Art and Archaeology in Aurillac. Specialist in Japanese photography from the 1950s to today, he is interested in the relationship between photography, publishing and exhibition. He also writes regular contemporary art and design reviews for journals, artists and institutions.
In partnership with Frac Bretagne & L’imagerie.
