Rethinking Photography

As part of the exhibition Rethinking Photography: Presence-Absence, Visible-Invisible, Cercle Cité is hosting a roundtable discussion moderated by curator Paul di Felice, featuring artists Yann Annicchiarico, Marco Godinho, and Lucas Leffler, all of whom are exhibited at the Ratskeller.

This event will offer the public an opportunity to discover the artists' work, explore their individual journeys, and delve deeper into the exhibition’s theme.

With artists: Yann Annicchiarico, Marco Godinho, Lucas Leffler
Moderated by: Paul di Felice (Café-Crème, curator of the exhibition Rethinking Photography: Presence–Absence, Visible–Invisible)

Yann Annicchiarico
Yann Annicchiarico (*1983, Luxembourg) confronts our human nature with worlds that are inaccessible to us, exploring their potential spaces. Inextricably linked to a stationary or moving body, the act of perception in Annicchiarico’s work is the vector for an awareness of the limits of our understanding, and, in turn, their transcendence.

Yann Annicchiarico has presented solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2023), Réfectoire des Nonnes in Lyon (2021), KIT – Kunst im Tunnel in Düsseldorf (2020), Nosbaum Reding Projects in Luxembourg (2019), and Centre des Arts Pluriels in Ettelbruck (2018), as well as group exhibitions at MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg (2021), Museo Archeologico del Chianti Senese in Italy (2019), and Villa Medici - Académie de France in Rome (2015). He has been an associate artist-researcher with the ACTH - Art Contemporain et Temps de l’Histoire group, in partnership with the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, since 2011.

Marco Godinho
Marco Godinho (*1978 in Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal) is a Portuguese-Luxembourgish visual artist who lives and works between Luxembourg and Paris. In 2019, he represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale and participated in the 2017 Lyon Biennale, as well as in collective exhibitions such as Exils. Regards d'artistes at the Louvre Lens in 2024. At the end of 2023, he co-founded the independent publishing house LUAR EDITIONS in Luxembourg with Keong-A Song and Fábio Godinho.

His approach, characterized by a certain economy of means, leads him to use various media as active environments: installations, performative gestures, videos, sound pieces, drawings, sculptures, photographs, as well as his writings, collaborative works, typographic compositions, artist books, and stage designs.

Influenced by literature, poetry, and philosophy, and shaped by a life marked by constant movement and cultural diversity, Marco Godinho’s work questions the notions of exile, hospitality, geography, and immigration. It often results from encounters with the living, blending everyday objects and elements of language. Defining himself as a "nomadic traveler," he traces the contours of a world map shaped by personal, biographical, and multicultural trajectories, thus inviting us to question our perception of the space and time in which we live.

Lucas Leffler
Lucas Leffler (*1993, Belgium) is living and working in Brussels. He received his MA at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (BE) and post-graduate at Le Fresnoy (FR). His work is represented by galeries Intervalle (FR) and Lee-Bauwens (BE).

His work has been exhibited at Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne, CH), FOMU (Antwerp, BE), Hangar Photo Art Center (Brussels, BE), Eleven Steens (Brussels, BE) and was presented in many art fairs in Europe including Art Paris and Paris Photo. His book Zilverbeek (Silver Creek) was released in autumn 2019 with Dutch publisher The Eriskay Connection.

 In 2022 he was laureate of second edition of residency Picto Lab - Experimenting the image and integrated a post-graduate course at Le Fresnoy - Studio National.