3 > 24 october 2026 - #18 Edition
Free admission to all exhibition venues
In 2026, Révélation(s) will explore what is revealed and shared through photography.
The exhibitions will examine the concept of ‘extime’: that which is intimate and, once revealed, becomes a shared language. Personal narratives, memories, solastalgia, and poetic or dystopian visions will form a programme in which individual experience resonates with the collective.
Set against the backdrop of the grand celebrations marking the Bicentenary of Photography, this edition will also highlight the way in which photographers are constantly reinventing the medium, thereby opening up new realms of perception and reflection.
We are delighted to present this wonderful programme: 12 exhibitions spread across 7 venues in the city of Clermont-Ferrand.
A big thank you to everyone who has opened their doors to us, and to our partners for their commitment to our cause.
We hope you enjoy discovering these exhibitions.
HÔTEL FONTFREYDE — centre photographique
34 rue des Gras
Tuesday to Saturday, 1.30 pm to 7 pm
Sundays 4, 11 and 18 October, 2 pm to 7 pm
DORA TISHMANN (Serbia)
And there was light
This project explores the ways in which electrical energy behaves when it comes into contact with matter. In a darkroom, I generate electrical discharges that strike plants, minerals, shapes and objects. Captured on 4×5 film as photograms, these traces reveal the cellular and molecular nature of light – a luminous geometry. They act as a revelation of an invisible dimension where the infinitely small and the infinitely large coexist, and where scales merge.
Dora Tishmann
DANA COJBUC (Romania)
Effluve
This exhibition presents a cross-section of Dana Cojbuc’s work, featuring pieces from several series that are emblematic of her artistic approach: Yggdrasil, Ouvrir le rivage, Effluve, Traces de silence, and En levko. The artist casts a poetic eye over the landscape, playing with it and boldly staging it. Starting from her own prints, she extrapolates, redefines boundaries, and reinvents the subject through drawing. The boundary between photography and charcoal work is subtle and mysterious, opening the way to imaginary places.
© Dana Cojbuc
ALESSANDRA CALÒ (Italy)
Ctonio
Ctonio is a photographic series that offers us a vision of a dreamlike, timeless place, one that plunges into darkness to tell an ancient story, where past and present intertwine with reality, legends, possible truths, and mythologies. Here, nature and humankind are placed in a symbolic darkness, understood as an intangible space from which new visions emerge and new possibilities open up to the imagination.
© Alessandra Calo
EMILIE ARFEUIL (France)
Hylé
Hylé, the greek term for “primordial matter” or “protomatter”, opens up a realm populated by chimeras, where the boundaries between the living and the mineral, the organic and the cosmic, dissolve.
In darkness, bodies and plants are painted with photosensitive pigments and gradually emerge from the blackness: what had eluded the gaze becomes visible.
Hylé sketches a utopian vision of the connection between humanity and nature.
The mythic becomes a political gesture: transforming the gaze and bringing about a new order that is sensitive, inclusive, and profoundly poetic.
© Emilie Arfeuil
© Gordon Matta-Clark
GORDON MATTA-CLARK (USA)
Automation House, 1972
A leading figure on the New York art scene of the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark explored architecture through acts of cutting into and opening up structures. Automation House reflects the artist’s early interest in the perception of space and the way in which bodies inhabit it.
Here, through a play of mirrors, reflections and disorientating framing, the artist subverts perspective and juxtaposes situations that conventional framing would conceal.
Straddling the line between performance and cinematic experimentation, the film blurs the viewer’s points of reference. This principle of reflection, which opens unexpected gaps within the image, already foreshadows its building cuts: the incision as a means of revealing what architecture had kept hidden.
© MATTA-CLARK Gordon
Automation House, 1972
Cinema, 16 mm film, black and white, sound
Running time: 32’
FNAC 01-020
Collection du Centre national des arts plastiques
En dépôt au [mac] musée d’art contemporain, Marseille
© Adagp, Paris / Cnap
SALLE GILBERT GAILLARD
2 rue Saint-Pierre
Tuesday to Saturday, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm to 6 pm
Sundays 4, 11 and 18 October, from 2 pm to 7 pm
AGNÉ GINTALAITÉ (Lithuania)
Chasing digital truth
In this series, Agnė Gintalaitė draws on her own photographic archives and generative AI to challenge the fragile authority of the photographic image. The works take the form of black-and-white photographs, but their subjects would never have been able to pose for a camera. Human and animal bodies become indistinguishable where the algorithm makes a mistake, repeats or corrects excessively. The error then becomes a means of revelation, showing how digital images learn to resemble reality.
©Agné Gintalaité
LAURE NILLUS (France)
Dé-payser
Dé-payser is a visual and audio installation. In a four-channel / quadraphonic sound installation, the stories of local residents, carers and people in exile who have attempted to cross the Franco-Italian border – which has been closed since 2015 – are interwoven. Echoing this composition of words – and sounds recorded on site – black-and-white photographs of the places where these stories unfolded are displayed on the walls of the space.
© Laure Nillus
CHAPELLE DE L’ANCIEN HÔPITAL GÉNÉRAL
22 rue Sainte-Rose
Tuesday to Sunday, 2 pm to 7 pm
ALEXIS PICHOT (France)
Rêve primaire
This series is the third instalment in a trilogy devoted to forests. It is inspired by the ambition of botanist Francis Hallé to “recreate a primary forest in France”: 70,000 hectares left to develop naturally for 700 years.
Reflecting on this dizzying expanse of time sparked a calling within me. I wanted to see the forest through the eyes of an insect, to make visible what is invisible to human eyes. From this nocturnal vision emerges a dreamlike forest, almost underwater. I invite you into a
healing forest.
© Alexis Pichot
SABATINA LECCIA (France)
Traverser la nuit
Traverser la nuit is a visual journey through the poetic meanderings of my nights. The images echo one another and resonate like lingering visions: landmarks shift, the sea becomes the sky, and the landscapes blur. With its layers, colours, embroidery and perforations, each piece reveals a new perspective as you draw closer. The exhibition invites the viewer to embark on a sensory and contemplative journey, opening up inner, sensitive landscapes that lie on the border between the visible and the imperceptible.
© Sabatina Leccia
MARINE LÉCUYER (France)
Préludes
A sensitive and subjective exploration of the Gaspé Peninsula (Quebec), Marine Lécuyer’s series Préludes takes the pathways of the imagination to explore the contours of an elegiac and vibrant natural world, set against the fleeting presence of humankind. At the intersection of reality and fiction, the characters in a story with blurred timelines blend into the natural surroundings and question our relationship with the world, in an ode to life that embraces the invisible.
© Marine Lécuyer
CENTRE CAMILLE CLAUDEL
3 rue Maréchal Joffre
Tuesday to Sunday, 2 pm to 6 pm
GRÉGOIRE DELANOS (France)
Érosion
Érosion is the convergence of two series of works.
Le cri – a long-term documentary and visual art project – captures on film the development of 190 hectares of farmland and forest in the Haute- Loire, and the transformation of the landscape.
De la terre sous les griffes is a work of autofiction exploring the artist’s intimate connection with the living world, taking the form of photographs, texts, fragments and installations. At their intersection, the photographic material is at times altered, filtered or reinterpreted, in dialogue with the living.
© Grégoire Delanos
ASSEMBLIA
14 rue Buffon
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday: from 8.15 am to 12.15 pm and from 1 pm to 4 pm
Thursday: 8.15 am to 12.15 pm
© Maël Gayton
Lycée La Fayette
Le monde autrement
The fruit of an eight-year partnership between the Pôle Image at Lycée La Fayette and the Sténopé association, this exhibition embodies the association’s mission to support the professional training of young photographers.
With the support of their teaching staff, this project offers students on the Vocational Baccalaureate programme their first group exhibition in a specialist setting.
Invited to explore the theme ‘Revelation(s)’, here they present unique perspectives that reveal the world in a different light, affirming their already distinct individualities.