Eugenia Arbugaeva: Tiksi

The fourth Photoquai Photography Biennial, will open in September At Musée du Quai Branly. Under the theme "Look at me" it will show 40 young non-western photographers.

Since its creation in 2007 at the initiative of the Musée du Quai Branly, the Photoquai Photography Biennale has been highlighting photography from all around the world that allows us to glimpse elsewhere as seen from elsewhere. Photoquai highlights and make publicly known non-Western artists whose work remains unpublished or little known in France, to encourage the exchange of ideas and an interchange of perspectives of the world.

The 2013 selection, curated by Frank Kalero, assembled under the slogan "Look at me", has a common denominator: all the photographic series are related to the human figure. Landscapes, objects, fashion or architecture appear in the form of elements that accompany the human being. In all the series, it is the body that acts as the unit of measurement for our universe.

"Photography halts the clouds in their tracks. As a metaphor of time, it provides a pause. With a single tiny detail – a scrap of paper on the ground, a stray dog – it can turn a description into a symbol. With a portrait – a silhouette even – it can reveal another world, sum up a whole society, show man as the measure of all things and the human figure as the true scale of the universe." says curator Kalero.

Evgenia Arbugaeva, born in 1985 in Tiksi, Siberia, studied art management at the international university of Moscow. She graduated at the International Centre of Photography in New York. She now divides her time between New York and Russia.