Planches Contact Festival #17 – Photographic presentation: Aline Piboule and Michel Poivert, Spectralité

To mark the bicentenary of photography, pianist Aline Piboule and photography historian Michel Poivert have devised a new work in which music and images engage in a dialogue centred on the invisible, memory and the phenomena of appearance.

What do photography and music share when they seek to reveal what escapes the eye or the ear? This question underpins *Spectralité*, an original production conceived as a sensory journey through image projection, commentary and musical interpretation. By creating a dialogue between photographic works and musical scores from different eras, Michel Poivert and Aline Piboule explore the deep connections that unite these two arts of perception. Apparitions, ghosts, illusions, and scientific or artistic experiments weave a narrative in which the visible and the invisible respond to one another. Through this interwoven history spanning two centuries of creative work, *Spectralité* invites the audience to take a fresh look at both images and sounds, and to discover the poetry of that which reveals itself only to those who take the time to look and listen.