Fotoausstellung: Adeline Keil - Petits désordres du monde (Kleine Unordnungen der Welt)

On the occasion of the Night of Museums 2025, the Institut français presents the photo exhibition " Petits désordres du monde " (Small Disorders of the World) by Adeline Keil.

Guided tour of the exhibition in the presence of the photographer on 26.04 at 19:00 and 20:00

Adeline Keil was born in 1979 and now lives between Latin America and Normandy. She is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles and was awarded the Prix européen of the FNAC and the Gras-Savoye Prize in 2004, the year she graduated from university. She spent ten years reporting for the French and international press and is currently a correspondent for the newspaper Libération.

For twenty years, Adeline Keil's aim has been to make a certain truth in reality comprehensible with her photographs, whereby she tries to blend the subjective dimension with the documentary one. She achieves this through intensive long-term observations in the areas where she travels - from Spain to the Ukraine, from Cuba and Latin America to Iceland and Morocco. Her personal experiences and her knowledge of social and economic conditions enable her to authentically reflect the themes of everyday life in her photographs.

In all her photo series, as different as they may be, Adeline Keil is concerned with people in their homeland and their ability to live and survive in the world that surrounds them. She thus presents us with visual, aural and literary atmospheres that stimulate our imagination by searching for traces in places steeped in history and in general questions that suggest more than they show.

This is particularly true of her photo series Petits Désordres du Monde(Small Disorders of the World), which was created in the course of her travels between 2016 and today. She raises the question of how new technologies and AI influence our relationship to reality and the world that surrounds us. With her cell phone and an exposure time of 5 to 15 minutes, far from the usual 1/125 of the "decisive moment", she has taken several fim-like panoramic photos, "continuums of snapshots" that are in some ways reminiscent of the slitscan recording technique. These digital memories from the areas she has traveled are fragmented, surreal and interspersed with distortions, showing a fragmentation of reality, a disorder of the world and reflecting the fractures that can be observed in our societies today, especially in NRW.

Her photographic works have been exhibited in various art centers in France and abroad (Palais de Tokyo, Centre dramatique national de Normandie, Museum of Contemporary Art in Odessa, Centre d'art in Valence) and have been awarded prizes. Adeline Keil has been supported by the French Regional Association for Culture (DRAC) and the National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP) and has collaborated several times with the Institut français and the Alliance française in Ukraine (Kiev, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa and Rivne).

26.04.2025, 19:00 and 20:00: Guided tours in the presence of the photographer