For me curating is a creative process which is, I think, close to my work in the CULTUREINSIDE. project. The themes that I want to explore in an exhibition I organize become also part of my own artistic work. As member of the EU Photographers Club in Luxembourg C.I.E.L. being since this year responsible for exhibition and competition I found in this club a tremendous place allowing me to grow, share skills and gain experiences in organizing exhibitions. We are realizing each year a group exhibition which migrates outside and inside the European Institutions. The current exhibition project I am curating includes photographers with a wide range of cultural background. An exciting experience!

The project 2008 is called: Luxembourg – The City of Short Distances. It represents a set of photographs of Luxembourg-city taken by the photographers of CIEL.
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, geographically situated in the heart of Europe has common borders with Germany, Belgium and France. A European population of multiple nationalities lives here together, country and city build a multinational and multicultural center.

The theme, a slogan of the City of Luxembourg is interpreted in various directions. On one hand it refers to the geographic, economic and cultural situation and the existing infrastructure. On the other hand, it refers to the crossing of the borders in the political, psychological, artistic, emotional fields and even the realization of common ideas.
The exhibitors belonging to different EU-Member States caught moments in their pictures revealing to the audience also the different aspects of photography. Photography permits to catch a fraction of a second, a fugitive instant. The before and after disappears – the instant stays. And it’s this instant that the photography presents to us – as an act documenting, testifying, and commenting or as an artistic act by touching the spectator. From picture to picture, series to series the vision changes.
The works present the density of a city in a panorama perspective, the juxtaposition of housing and natural space, juxtaposition of today and past in a city, the new rent-a-bike-system véloh just inaugurated this year, impressions taken at the new terminal of Luxembourg’s airport, testimonies of a global economy, images of “today’s nomads” and consumer crowds in the shopping malls and much more … Multiple interpretations as an open book presenting diverse visions of a city and its short distances.