SORTILÈGES
July 7th – October 5 th, 2025
In 2025, the Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary at Hôtel Blain with a captivating exploration of mystery, magic, and occult worlds.
This program invites visitors to cross the threshold of the invisible, delve into the unknown, and question beliefs that defy reason. Each exhibition becomes a passage, an echo of hidden traditions, an immersion into the elusive.
Far from certainties, this sensory journey opens the doors of imagination and reveals the aura of mystery.
Through the figure of the Black Madonna, Saint Sarah, the program examines popular beliefs that, between devotion and transgression, transcend cultures and eras. Fotohaus amplifies this program with the theme Controversy and Paradox, inviting an exploration of the tensions and contradictions that arise when beliefs collide with reality. In a French and European society shaped by rationalism, spirituality is often relegated to the periphery of dominant discourse, oscillating between fascination and rejection.
With the work of Joan Alvado (1979, Spain), Ian Cheibub (1999, Brazil), Maja Daniels (1985, Sweden), Alexandre Dupeyron (1983, France), Weronika Gęsicka (1984, Poland), Jann Höfer (1986, Germany), Martin Lamberty (1991, Germany), Laura Lafon Cadilhac (1989, France), Silvia Prió (1972, Spain), Virginie Rebetez (1979, Switzerland), Wlad Simitch (1982, Franco-Serbian) et Ann-Christine Woehrl (1975, Germany) and collectives: FREELENS, INLAND, Laif and The Reporters with with Taiwanese photographers.
Under the artistic direction of Florent Basiletti and curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann, Christel Boget, Gilles Cargueray, Emmanuelle Hascoët, Klaus Kehrer, David Kern, Gilles Massot, Heike Ollertz, Hildesheim Pirot Ziegler and Cornelia Siebert, Sortilèges is part of the associated program of the Rencontres.
Alumbre na Macaia © Ian Cheibub
