[Summer 2025]

Faits divers
by Julie Martin

[EXCERPT]

Considered a minor form of news, often replete with sordid situations, faits divers (weird local news items) lure and fasci­nate as much as they draw repugnance and contempt. Although this ambivalence is key to how we think of such content, the artists gathered at the MAC VAL by the exhibition curators – the institution’s director, Nicolas Surlapierre, and the historian of photography Vincent Lavoie – were more concerned with the issues of representation that faits divers pose.

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Julie Martin is a teacher and researcher. She investigates documentary art approaches in the era of fluid images and connections between the arts and politics. With Sara Alonso Gómez, she wrote Contre-visualités, écarts tactiques dans l’art contemporain (2023). She is a co-founder of Les éditions Lorelei and co-editor of the “Friction” collection. She is also an art critic and exhibition curator.