Vincent Rosenblatt
A preview of the exhibition « Baile Funk » at the maison Folie Wazemmes in Lille
1 August → 15 September 2025
Paris Nord Station
Vincent Rosenblatt’s photographs of the Bailes Funk in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), where taken in the favelas and suburbs of the city. Since 2005, the photographer has been documenting these open-air dances where people dance to the rhythm of funk carioca (the name given by the inhabitants of Rio), ‘a kaleidoscope of rhythms, rituals, territories and identities,’ he explains. “The funkeiros shared with me the responsibility and danger of producing images of places that are “forbidden” to be represented, as they are stigmatised by certain sections of the press and constantly threatened with prohibition. In recent years, against a backdrop of latent prohibition of favela bailes, a generation of young producers has reinvented Rio’s nightlife. “
This exhibition at the Gare du Nord invites visitors to discover these popular celebrations, manifestations of pride and rebellion, and one of the most important drivers of artistic production in Brazil today. It echoes the exhibition Baile Funk: A Cry for Freedom at the Maison Folie Wazemmes in Lille, programmed as part of Fiesta, the 7th edition of lille3000 and the Brazil-France Season 2025.
Charles Fréger
A preview of the exhibition « Charivari » at the Musée de Flandre in Cassel
1 August → 15 September 2025
Charles de Gaulle Airport Station 2 TGV, Paris
Charles Fréger’s photographs are taken during carnivals in Belgium and Hauts-de-France. They depict satire, social upheaval and friction in these masked, costumed and sometimes unrecognisable figures, but also the strong links between these regions and carnival traditions. This exhibition at the station reveals previously unseen images that echo the Charivari exhibition presented at the Musée de Flandre in Cassel, as part of lille3000.
Excerpts from the Charivari series, begun in 2024, these portraits belong to the new opus of work that the photographer has been conducting for some fifteen years on the different forms of theatricality in human societies through popular festivals and costumes. Wilder Mann, the first opus, focused on European winter masquerades linked to rites of passage of the seasons and fertility of the earth. After completing various projects and works devoted to masquerades in Japan, the Americas and India, Charles Fréger has been back in Europe for the past year. While Wilder Mann highlights essentially rural practices, where costumes made of straw or animal skins reveal a search for connection with the natural order, it is the town, the city, its life and its social order that are at the centre of the masquerades in Charivari.
↑ © Mathieu Delmestre, SNCF Gares & Connexions