COME TOGETHER
Associated Program of the 2026 Rencontres d’Arles
After more than ten years of presence in Arles, the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation opens a new chapter in its history in 2026. This transitional year reflects both the continuation of its commitment to documentary photography and socially engaged artistic practices, and a renewed ambition to foster creation, research, and knowledge sharing.
As part of the 2026 Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, the Foundation presents Come Together, a program bringing together projects by Eric Bouvet, Regula Tschumi, Yuan Goang-Ming, Oleñka Carrasco and La Chica, Shelby Duncan, as well as contributions from FOTOHAUS and the Foundation’s photographic library.
Through a variety of artistic approaches, these exhibitions explore themes of connection, memory, identity, and coexistence in a constantly evolving world.
The Foundation also continues its mission of supporting emerging artists, particularly those from the Global South, while strengthening its collaborations with schools, universities, researchers, and cultural organizations. More than an exhibition venue, it aims to be a space for encounter, dialogue, and transmission, open to both artists and audiences throughout the year.
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Associated Program of the 2026 Rencontres d’Arles
After more than ten years of presence in Arles, the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation opens a new chapter in its history in 2026. This transitional year reflects both the continuation of its commitment to documentary photography and socially engaged artistic practices, and a renewed ambition to foster creation, research, and knowledge sharing.
As part of the 2026 Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, the Foundation presents Come Together, a program bringing together projects by Eric Bouvet, Regula Tschumi, Yuan Goang-Ming, Oleñka Carrasco and La Chica, Shelby Duncan, as well as contributions from FOTOHAUS and the Foundation’s photographic library.
Through a variety of artistic approaches, these exhibitions explore themes of connection, memory, identity, and coexistence in a constantly evolving world.
The Foundation also continues its mission of supporting emerging artists, particularly those from the Global South, while strengthening its collaborations with schools, universities, researchers, and cultural organizations. More than an exhibition venue, it aims to be a space for encounter, dialogue, and transmission, open to both artists and audiences throughout the year.
Future announcements will be shared via a newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter.
Buried in Style
Regula TSCHUMI
Through Buried in Style, Regula Tschumi explores the contemporary transformations of funerary rituals in southern Ghana, particularly within Ga culture in the Greater Accra region, where death becomes a space of creativity, memory, and social prestige. Far from being solely an occasion for mourning, funerals emerge as collective celebrations in which the relationship between the living and their ancestors is reaffirmed at the heart of local cosmologies.
At the center of this project are Ghanaian figurative coffins—remarkable vernacular sculptures that reflect the profession, status, life journey, or aspirations of the deceased. Rooted in a tradition that continues to evolve, they embody a productive tension between ritual heritage, prestige economy, and formal imagination.
Tschumi’s work, informed by her background as an anthropologist, art historian, and photographer, reveals a visual culture in which forms, objects, and gestures play an essential role in shaping social bonds. Here, aesthetics appear not merely as decoration, but as a means of inscribing loss within a shared and living symbolic order.
curators Klaus Kehrer, Alejandro León Cannock
partners Kehrer Verlag
Le chaos qui me donne la vie. Atlas d’un pays imaginé
Oleñka Carrasco & La Chica
Created jointly through image and music, this project unfolds as a sensory journey through exile, where visual and sonic languages move beyond borders and connect distant territories. It takes root in El Callao, Venezuela, a region shaped by Caribbean migrations linked to the gold-mining industry. Carnival, calypso, and Creole culture embody the living memory of these movements and exchanges, now set against one of the largest contemporary displacement crises, with nearly 7.9 million Venezuelans having left their country.
The project is structured in four chapters, developed across three territories—Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago, and French Guiana—as well as a fourth, imagined territory: Venezuela itself. Each chapter becomes a space for research and reconnection, where we sought, through sounds, bodies, and rituals, traces of what still binds us to our homeland, preserved through memory and sensation.
These journeys form a sensitive cartography woven from echoes, correspondences, and displacements. Moving between proximity and distance, presence and absence, the project explores what endures, transforms, or shifts when one lives away from their native land. It offers an open-ended narrative in which the experience of exile is reassembled through fragments, suspended between imagination and memory.
curator Fondation Swiss Life
partners Fondation Swiss Life, Agence PAM, Pro Image Service
artistic advisor Emilia Genuardi, Stéphane Amiel
price Swiss Life à 4 mains 2026-2027
House of Love
Shelby Duncan
House of Love is a photographic and narrative project by Shelby Duncan that documents a creative community formed within a house in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles, between 2009 and 2015. Presented here for the first time as an exhibition, the project reveals both a living environment and a constructed world, where the house becomes a site of creativity and vulnerability, bringing together artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
Immersed within this community, Duncan adopts an “inside-out” perspective, blurring the boundary between observer and participant. The images capture moments of intimacy, spontaneity, and shared presence, shaped by trust and proximity. Photography is combined with ephemeral materials and personal archives to evoke the atmosphere of the house and its constantly evolving community.
House of Love documents a creative ecosystem that existed before the dominance of social media, grounded in spontaneous intimacy and direct human connection. The work preserves a nostalgic vision of unguarded presence, creative becoming, togetherness, and genuine love.
The project explores youth, freedom, and the conditions that foster creative emergence, while tracing the formation of a collective memory.
curators Shelby Duncan, Nicolas Huet Greub
main partners 37.2, La Hune, YellowKorner, LabKorner, Everest
partners Processus, Agence PAM
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