Description
Based on the looping shape of the Doubs River around Besançon’s city center, Riky Kiwy and Ama Split set out to discover the city’s outlying districts, to get to know it down to its very last nooks and crannies. They used this annular shape to mark out their areas of intervention, the first of which was Les Prés-de-Vaux.
Over a period of several months, they surveyed the streets and met the inhabitants who were part of this new loop, before publishing the first issue of Le Kiosk magazine, which brings together photographs, texts and drawings from their immersion in Les Prés-de-Vaux.
They presented this work on Sunday June 11 in the Rhodiacéta park, as part of the festival. Two new issues, linked to two other Besançon neighborhoods, are in preparation.
Action
Bien Urbain 11
2 weeks : June 9 to 25, 2023
27 invited artists : ABCDEF (DE) // Ama Split & Riky Kiwy (FR, IT) // Ampparito (ES) // Camille Bondon (FR) // Charlotte Beltzung (FR) // Christina Kubisch (DE) // Clown (FR) // Doa Oa (ES) // Dima Mykytenko (UKR) // Ella & Pitr (FR) // JOUBe (FR) // Ju Hyun LEE (KR) // Justine Caoudal (FR) // Lou Amoros Augustin (FR) // Mary et Jiem (FR) // Mujo Atelier (FR) // MZM Projects (UKR) // le collectif Ne Rougissez Pas (FR) // Red (FR) // Saturn (FR) // Simone Découpe (FR) // Vilx (FR)
Biographie
Artist-photographers Riky Kiwy and Ama Split have been working together for many years. Their focus is on cities, their buildings, their occupants, their means of transport, their streets and so on. They produce artistic documentary works that constitute an archive of a given place. They also specialize in street photography: bright colors, spontaneous photos, flash, zoom, people caught on the spot, they like to capture expressions, situations before they fade away. They convey their thoughts, ideas and visions by combining images, creating diptychs and bringing photos together. Presenting their images through editorial projects is part of their art. The layout of the photos, the graphic design, the addition of texts and illustrations give their work its full meaning.
Crédits
Nicolas Waltefaugle, Olivia Jacquot, Riky Kiwy et Ama Split