Festival Circulation(s) 2026

Curated by the Fetart collective, it brings together twenty-six artists from fifteen countries in an exhibition with no fixed theme, just a shared desire to capture the now. The result is a combination of perspectives that feels diverse, urgent, and alive. This year’s Focus section turns its attention to Ireland, continuing the festival’s ongoing habit of highlighting photographic scenes that deserve a louder voice. 

This Paris-based photographer works between reportage and staging, between luxury commissions and documentary projects, revealing the sensitive side of reality. The centre of her work is Generation Z, exploring how young women shape their identity. Reliées (Related) captures five young women in moments of silliness and movement, where uncertainty is present. 

The Irish photographer and printmaker explores queer joy, community, mental health, and intimacy, creating spaces of shared experiences and connection. Homemade Undercuts is an intimate series that studies hair as a form of queer expression, identity and connection. It shows how hairstyles become tools of visibility and self-definition, especially for those outside the gender binary, and the act of creating oneself in one’s own image and on one’s own terms. 

Working with photography and installations, combining analogue photography with handmade objects, she documents fragments of everyday life. Forty thousand handmade red-winged bugs fill a living room, symbolising the Russian occupation of Ukraine and reflecting an uneasy reality. The project follows artist R.B. as she lives through this infestation in a pseudo-documentary approach, combining portrait, testimony, her room and a representation of the insect. 

This Slovak visual artist explores socio-digital dynamics and power structures. Her work examines how social aspects shape women’s identities, using in-game photography to stage domestic and intimate scenes. It highlights the fragile line between reality and illusion and the tension between expectation and desire, where relationships appear both safe and restrictive. 

As a visual artist from Brazil, Roncato explores how images shape belief systems, power and collective memory through semi-fictional narratives. This project analyses the rise of Brazil’s far-right as a spectacle of misinformation and digital manipulation, using the 2018 stabbing of Jair Bolsonaro as a starting point. By staging imaginary and archival elements, it shows how an event of this scale can become political myth, blurring fact and fiction within a wider global condition. 

NouN, a visual artist trained in Paris, and T2i, a multidisciplinary creator from French Guiana, combine practices through dialogue and a shared hybrid universe. Rooted in Creole culture and decolonial perspectives, their work explores memory, identity and the body. Manman Dilo is a half-woman, half-fish figure embodying the spiritual force of water, reimagined in a dystopian world through an Afrofuturistic lens.

Combining photography, printing experiments and installation, Muller explores the materiality and presentation of the images. Feuillages rebelles, pelages revêches (Rebellious foliage, unruly coats) examines our relationship with living things through pruned trees and groomed animals, set between care and control. These hybrid forms evoke histories of domestication and selection. Large multi-panel prints transform the space into a sculptural landscape filled with human-like figures, sharing a theme of foliage and fur textures, reflecting tension between nature and human intervention.