Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Constantin Schlachter, de la série Nigredo, 2022. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Emilia Martin, de la série I saw a tree bearing stones in the place of apples and pears [J’ai vu un arbre portant des pierres à la place de pommes et de poires], 2022-2025. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Balázs Turós, de la série The Nature of Things [La Nature des choses], 2018-. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Yana Wernicke, de la série Die Verwandlung [La Métamorphose], 2023-2024. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Zoe Hamill, de la série Primary Succession [Succession primaire], 2025. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Zoe Hamill, de la série Primary Succession [Succession primaire], 2025. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Emilia Martin, de la série I saw a tree bearing stones in the place of apples and pears [J'ai vu un arbre portant des pierres à la place de pommes et des poires], 2022-2025. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Zoe Hamill, de la série Primary Succession [Succession primaire], 2025. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Balázs Turós, de la série The Nature of Things [La Nature des choses], 2018-. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Balázs Turós, de la série The Nature of Things [La Nature des choses], 2018-. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Yana Wernicke, de la série Die Verwandlung [La Métamorphose], 2023-2024. Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Constantin Schlachter, de la série Polyphonies des Invisibles, 2024- . Courtesy de l’artiste.
Exposition de photographie contemporaine Metamorphosis à Rouen gratuit art
Vitalii Halanzha, de la série Underfoot [Sous les pieds], 2024. Courtesy de l’artiste.

OPENING

METAMORPHOSIS
Vitalii Halanzha, Zoe Hamill, Emilia Martin, Constantin Schlachter, Balázs Turós, Yana Wernicke

Friday, 6 February, from 6 p.m.
in the presence of the artists

Stories of metamorphosis have been passed down to us countless times throughout European culture: from Ovid’s ancient poem populated by chimeras to Marie Darrieussecq’s contemporary tale of the woman-sow, not to mention the figure of the Minotaur that appeared almost a century ago, at the height of fascism, in the drawings and paintings of the Surrealists. Each in their own era, these stories put into words and images the nagging, age-old questions about our place in society and, more broadly, in the uncertain and chaotic march of the world.

What about today?What metamorphoses do artists observe and what stories, fantastical or realistic, do they deliver? With this question in mind, we explore the young European photography scene represented by the Futures platform and bring together six artists in this exhibition: Vitalii Halanzha (Ukraine, 1991), Zoe Hamill (United Kingdom, 1987), Emilia Martin (Poland, 1991), Constantin Schlachter (France, 1992), Balázs Turós (Hungary, 1990) and Yana Wernicke (Germany, 1990). Born in the century that saw the discovery of quantum mechanics, growing up at the turn of the century that confirmed that half of our cells are not human, they now live in a world that reveals to us day after day our connection to its smallest particles and to which we confirm, with the same constancy, our warlike and destructive obstinacy. As artists in this new century, they tell us stories of microscopic life forms and infinite cosmos, of meteorites and beliefs, of men becoming animals, of a baby and a grandmother, and of a forest at war.

From this seemingly tenacious need to create narrative and imagery despite everything, we can deduce the ever-present desire to decipher the grammar of the world and rediscover the path to a common language.

The exhibition was produced with the support of the European photography platform FUTURES, co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme. Its theme was conceived by the curators of three member organisations of the platform: Světlana Malina (Fotograf Zone, Prague, Czech Republic), Emese Mucsi (Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre, Budapest, Hungary) and Raphaëlle Stopin (Centre photographique Rouen Normandie, France).

Free entry