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Crossing Europe Photo Exhibition in Paris: Mafalda Rakos

 


Photographer Mafalda Rakos is one of six photographers in the “Traversées d’Europe” (Crossing Europe) photo exhibition on the railings of the Luxembourg Garden in Paris. The theme is to inform the debate about what it means to be European reflecting on the same idea: moving and travelling with the photographer’s subject to capture its multi-faceted character.

 

Mafalda Rakos (1994-) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. For this ongoing project, she has hitchhiked for more than 6,210 miles (9,994 kilometres) throughout Europe. She has criss-crossed Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, and France, conversing with people who pick her up for the ride – such as lorry-drivers, newly-weds, taxi drivers, and so on. Her body of work for the Traversées d’Europe” (Crossing Europe) photo exhibition is called “Stop & Go” (2017 - ongoing).

 

Presented by the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Fetart Collective from 20 January to 27 February 2022, it is a transnational art project. Circulation (France’s only festival dedicated to the emerging European art scene) has been exploring the territory for 11 years scouting new talent. 















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MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the author   of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce  (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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