Settled @ La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse: Adji Dieye, Ange-Frédéric Koffi

Curated by Ange-Frédéric Koffi, the photographic exhibition Settled brings together seven international artists at La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse, from May 16 to July 11, 2026. Presented as part of the 7th edition of the Mulhouse Biennale of Photography, titled Sédimentation(s), it explores notions of visibility and invisibility through the geological metaphor of sedimentation.

The opening will take place on Saturday, June 6 at 11 a.m.

The exhibition proposes to use processes of sedimentation as a metaphor for the modes of visibility and invisibility that shape our present time. Geological strata are at once visible and buried, present and millennia-old, revealing both a history and its gaps. The artists brought together in this exhibition engage with this tension between what accumulates and what disappears, between what is shown and what remains hidden.

In this sense, the exhibition is conceptually grounded in the notion of ambivalence as explored in current photographic research. Far from being reduced to mere indecision, ambivalence emerges here as the juxtaposition of antagonistic, often irreconcilable positions that run through different layers of our perception. This tension fundamentally characterizes our relationship to the photographic image: while it allows for the unveiling and archiving of reality, it simultaneously confronts us with the limits of that very visibility—with everything that remains out of frame, inaccessible, or elusive.