In dialogue with the display States of (Un)dress: Delacroix and Clothing, which runs until 3 February 2025, the Musée Delacroix is participating in the latest edition of the PhotoSaintGermain festival, showing a selection of photographs by Bayeté Ross Smith (born in 1976).

The American artist’s first exhibition in France is being jointly held at the Mougins Center of Photography and the Musée Delacroix. The exhibition features works from the series Our Kind of People, in which the photographed subjects are dressed in six different outfits from their own wardrobes, inviting consideration of how prejudices shape perceptions of an individual’s identity.

A second series, Mirrors Face to Face, explores the interactions between the different personas we embody. Here, the staging conveys the fascinating complexity of identity – personal and interior, as well as that which is revealed to others. This series also raises questions pertaining to self-management and mental health, given the frequent need in contemporary society to project an outward image for survival.

Exhibition Curators:
- Yasmine Chemali, director of the Mougins Center of Photography
- Claire Bessède, director of the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix

Guided tour in English with Bayeté Ross Smith
consecutive interpretation in French by Yasmine Chemali
Thursday, 7 November at 6:00 p.m.
(length: 60 minutes)

For further information on the PhotoSaintGermain festival programme, see the press kit