Emoplux

Eager to provide emerging Luxembourg artists with greater visibility, the festival managers have initiated a new formula which offers, alongside the public viewing of a portfolio, an exhibition of selected works from the 2023 edition.
The selected artists were asked to consider the topic of Rethinking Identity in a relevant and original way by choosing personal contexts and particular situations strongly rooted in their daily lives.
Steven da Cruz’s photographs, often exhibited in baroque settings, speak of this generation’s uneasiness about the body, beauty and social norms that undergo constant change. This baroque aspect can also be found in the works of Bruno de Oliveira whose poetic and autobiographical images speak of migration and community. The “Queer” aesthetic provides common ground for certain works by these young Luxembourg artists who are not afraid to show their vulnerability. This is also the case of Pit Reding who, in his art, makes the LGBTIQ+ ideology his own. Questioning identity in the context of postcolonial as well as feminist power dynamics is tackled with humour by Manon Diederich in her collage series Postcards from Brussels and Bouchée à la reine. Another kind of humour can be found in the series by Anna Krieps, who photographs her sister, actress Vicky Krieps, dressed as an astronaut in various situations. This alter ego in photographic stagings results out of a long obsession with her identification with this persona of the space age,
For Pol Trierweiler, the quest for identity is linked to a return to childhood. A green garden with all its happy memories is the perfect setting for meditation and self-reflection. In addition to these more personal concerns there is also the documentary photography of Anne Speltz whose social interests become visible in participatory projects which involve her fellow citizens while posing the question of identity in a different way.