PARIS PHOTO 2026
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PARIS PHOTO 2026
Hélène Bellenger, dune Varela, Lucia Tallová, Yang Yongliang
NOV 12th - NOV 15th, 2026
GRAND PALAIS, PARIS, FRANCE
BOOTH D06
Bianco Ordinario transforms the pages of the book into a sensitive, iconographic, and tactile exploration of one of the most famous materials in art history: Carrara marble. Hélène Bellenger tells us how this limestone—which, in Italy, once provided one of the most noble materials for ancient and modern sculpture—is now used in powder form by manufacturers. The work attempts to capture the traces of this unsettling journey, notably by printing marble images on the backs of cardboard packaging boxes. – Victor Gueguan
Hélène Bellenger is a French artist whose practice explores the production and circulation of images within Western visual culture. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles, she has exhibited at institutions including MUCEM in Marseille and Hangar Photo Art Center in Brussels. Her work has received the Eurazeo Young Photography Prize and the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Prize for Young Talents
Dune Varela is an artist dedicated to photography in its dual dimension of testimony and alterable material. Playing with the intertwining of times and eras, she works with the image as if it were a ruin, a relic, caught in the movement of speculative archaeology and a history that is as much written as it is erased or fragmented. Moving away from traditional photographic prints on the flat paper surface, Dune Varela prints or mounts them on new materials such as ceramics, aluminum, glass, concrete, and, more recently, marble. The experimentation aims to create a mise en abyme of the representation and image of symbolic, historical, and political landscapes; thus facilitating a dialogue between mediums and sources, memory and history, images and temporalities.
Dune Varela was born in 1976 in Paris. After studying law in Paris and cinema in New York, she dedicated herself to analog photography, exploring its dual nature as a substantial and essential substrate, as well as a fragile and alterable material. Later, she expands her research to include video and cinema. She has exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, Paris Photo, the Approche salon, the Nicéphore Nièpce Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Liège, and the Hear Strasbourg.
In her work, Lucia Tallová brings together old photographs, found objects, collages and paintings to create poetic compositions suspended between memory and imagination. Through the careful assemblage of these fragments, she explores the passage of time, the fragility of memory and the transformation of familiar objects into new, evocative forms.
Lucia Tallová was born in 1985 in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she lives and works. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and participated in the 16th Biennale de Lyon in 2022.
Yang Yongliang is questioning our economical, environmental and social issues, by foreseeing the devastating effects of unrestrained urbanisation and industrialisation in China and abroad. Inspired by Chinese ancestral culture and Shan Shui, Yang Yongliang works with digital photography like a painter.
The overall view of his work reminds us of a landscape, but a careful analysis will reveal an image made of man-made shapes and the representation of an undoubtedly urban context. The characteristic trees from the classical Song dynasty paintings become metallic lattice or poles from which are drawn electrical power lines. The contemporary urban imagery in total decay is always present: the mountains covered by giant skyscrapers in ruins will soon be ooded by the rise of the waters, taking more and more over the surface. However Yang Yongliang subtly suggests a possible agreement between tradition and modernity, nature and culture.
Yang Yongliang was born in Shanghai in 1980. He studied traditional Chinese painting with the calligraphy master Yang Yang for ten years. Photographer, painter, videographer and visual artist, he graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Design and the China Academy of Arts in the fields of visual communication and design. He is now a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art.
