Ayana V. Jackson, To be Black And Female in the Spanish South West, in the Style of Selika Lazevski, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
We are pleased to announce the participation of Ayana V. Jackson in the 2026 edition of the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles.
Ayana V. Jackson’s exhibition will be presented in the Salle du Réfectoire of the Abbaye de Montmajour, a former Benedictine monastery built between the 10th and 18th centuries. The presentation will bring together recent and new works from Jackson's paradigmatic series You forgot to see me coming.
Ayana V. Jackson's work was recently acquired by the Cameron Art Museum, Michigan State University Museum and by the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Madrid.
Founded in 1970, the Rencontres d’Arles is one of the most influential photography festivals in the world, bringing together artists, curators, and audiences across historic sites throughout the city. Its director, Christoph Wiesner, describes this year’s edition, titled Worlds in View, as “a space for complexity and attentiveness, not to artificially soften the violence of reality, but to bring out its depth, and to face a sometimes unsettling world while continuing to find beauty, connection and freedom in it.”
Exhibition Dates: July 8 - October 4, 2026
April 4, 2026
