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The video installation La barque ouverte is displayed for the first time as part of La Sagesse des lianes, a group exhibition by curator Dénétem Touam Bona at CIAP Vassivière. This video is a collaboration with writer and director Hugo Rousselin. Made from an unpublished film archive produced as part of the CHAM project, La barque ouverte is a reference to a text spoken by Edouard Glissant, the preface to the Poetics of Relation in which Glissant thus sums up the experience of abyss of slavery of Africans and rebirth through resistance.

Post-Production Laboratory: L'ATELIER
 
La Sagesse des Lianes
Centre International d'Art et du Paysage de Vassivière
From September 19 to January 9, 2022

The Families of Man is a group exhibition that traces a state of Italian contemporary photography for 50 years, inspired by the homonymous exhibition The Family of Man by Edward Steichen (1955, New York, MoMA) Along with the other 50 artists, I am presenting some works from Binidittu series. The project, produced by publisher house Electa, was curated by Elio Grazioli and Walter Guadagnini.

MAR – Museo Archeologico Regionale
From May 29 to October 10 2021.

Mythologies of Resistances, Memories of slavery in the Caribbean was shown at Maison de l'agglomeration as part of Photo Festival Baie de Saint-Brieuc from Juin 15 to August 29, 2021. The exhibition presented a selection of images from the series Ayiti (2013-2019) and the series Mas (2012-2020). With a text by art curator Jeanne Mercier. All my thanks to art director Ferit Duzyol and all the team.

The series Binidittu is presented at Chiesa Madre as part of Images Gibellina Festival. Chiesa Madre, Gibellina Nuova. From July 30 to August 29, 2021. Thanks to curators Arianna Catania, Stefano Stoll and Rica Cerbarano for their commitment.

BINIDITTU features in Libération, May 22 Weekend issue : Benoît Le More Vivant. Book review by Clémentine Mercier.

On Thursday, May 27, CAMERA - Centro Nazionale di Fotografia, opens with a new exhibition, Nicola Lo Calzo. Binidittu, a previously unseen project by the Italian artist .Through the history and cultural heritage of Saint Benedict the Moor, Lo Calzo examines the relationship between colonialism legacy and contemporary cultural identity.

Binidittu, the fourth book of my long-term project Cham, is out! Published by L’ARTIERE, design by Ramon Pez.Included in the book and along with my text, there are beautiful essays by Igiaba SCEGO, Doudou DIÈNE and Alagie JINCANG, addressing the multiple significance of Benedict today in the context of Mediterranean migration and contemporary forms of (in)visibillity of African diaspora. Passages from writer Ralph ELLISON's book The Invisible Man, a seminal work of African-American literature, feature throughout Binidittu along with interviews and archives. The book was made in Italy by L’Artiere with the support of Fond de Dotation Buchet-Ponsoye, Prix Elysée and Cnap.

You can order the book at your local bookstore or online at the link here below

(Un)Hidden, curated by Nicola Lo Calzo.
Dominique Fiat gallery, from January 13 to February 27, from Tuesday - Saturday - 11am to 7pm.

Chantal Regnault - Voguing
Nicola Lo Calzo - Binidittu
Rut Bless Luxembourg - Atlas Eldorado
Sue Williamson - The last supper

Regnault presents for the first time a selection of vintage black and white and color photographs, from her mythical work "Voguing" realized between 1989 and 1992 with the house ballroom scene in New York.

“Paris, 13 novembre, 2015 - Du jour au lendemain”, from November 13, 2020 to March, 2021, Jardin May-Picqueray, Paris.
An exhibition organized by 13onze15 - Fraternité & Vérité. Catalogue by L'Artiere.
All my thanks to art curator Laura Serani and organiser Camille Morin for their commitment.

The series Tchamba is presented as part of the group exhibition Beliefs: Unraveling the Invisible at the Institute of Islamic Cultures. Art curator Jeanne Mercier. You can make a virtual tour, waiting for the reopening of the exhibition.

With
Nabil Boutros, Samuel Fosso, Rahima Gambo, Maïmouna Guerresi, Éric Guglielmi, Bruno Hadjih, Bénédicte Kurzen & Sanne de Wilde, Mohammed Laouli, Nicola Lo Calzo, Giya Makondo Wills, Josèfa Ntjam, Léonard Pongo, Btihal Remli,Tabita Rezaire, Seumboy.

Institut des Cultures d'Islam
19, rue Léon – 75018 Paris
From March 12 to October 31, 2020

Binidittu is featured in Le Monde M, Text by Jerôme Gautheret : "Maure et Vifs". 8 pages photo story. 25.01.2020. All my thanks to Lucy Conticello, Jerôme Gautheret and the magazine.

Fisheye #40 runs a 8 pages photo story on the CHAM project. Text and interview by Éric Karsenty. January 2020

El Pais Semanal features the series AYITI with a 6 pages photostory "Ritmos et ritos contra las desdichas". January 2020

Internationale 1333 features the series Binidittu. 8 pages photostory "The black Sicilian saint".

The new series Binidittu is featured for the first time on Granta magazine, Winter Issue. 20 pages with a text by Daisy Lafarge.

We will be happy to see you in The Grand Palais during Paris Photo for the solo show "Cham, a work in progress 2010-2019" on the Dominique Fiat booth A04.

Paris Photo International Fair 2019, 7 - 10 November 2019.

Mythologies of Resistance ( the Ayiti and Mas series ) was presented as part of the Fotofestiwal 2019. Art curator Jeanne Mercier.

From 13th to 30th June 2019.
Art_Inkubator, Fotofestiwal, Lodz - Poland.

The Regla series on Afro-Cuban underground was exhibited at Images Singulières Festival in Sète - France.

From 29th May to 16th June 2019.
Regla, Espace SNCF, Sète.

The Obia series on Maroon communities of Suriname and French Guiana is published in VRIJ Nederland. Text by Lizzy Van Leeuwen.

"Het slavernijmuseum komt er, maar wiens verhaal gaat het vertellen?"

Published by the Musée de l'Elysée, this book presents the projects of the eight nominees of the third edition of the Elysée Prize: Laia Abril, Mathieu Asselin, Claude Baechtold, Alexandra Catière, Alinka Echeverría, Gregory Halpern, Nicola Lo Calzo and Luis Carlos Tovar have been selected by the museum from over 325 applicants from around the world.

The doors of Maison Dufort, hosting the first exhibition of Kazal, will remain open until April 16, 2019 for guided tours with the photographers who authored this project: Edine Celestin Fabienne Douce Ray-ginald Paklè Louissaint Mackenson Saint Felix Georges Harry Rouzier Moses Pierre

KAZAL is a photographic project that unpublishes the memories of the dictatorship of François Duvalier in Haiti. The project, produced by FOKAL and Kolektif 2D under Nicola Lo Calzo's artistic and curatorial direction, is both a book for the André Frère edition, a traveling exhibition and a long-format web.

Maison Dufort - Port-au-Prince - Haïti
KAZAL, Memories of a massacre under Duvalier: a photographic approach.
28th march - 30th april 2019

EL PAIS published the series CASTA all over the 17th December 2018 week: Casta y Raza. Every day a photograph, for a week. Many thanks to Gorka Lejarcegui Zubizarreta and all the team.

Africa is no Island - Zinsou Foundation - Cotonou  Benin
November 2-2018  / April 27-2019

Co-founders of Afrique in Visu, Jeanne Mercier and Baptiste de Ville d’Avray, working alongside independent associate curator Madeleine de Colnet have brought together artists who have previously worked with the platform and artists whose works are part of the museum’s collection.

Contact Sheet 197, Light Work Annual 2018 is out now
with a photo story on the Casta series (Louisiana and Mississippi).
Text by writer and journalist Max Lakin.

AKAA Art Fair

Dominique Fiat gallery shows the works of Vivian Van BLERK, Safâa ERRUAS, Nicola LO CALZO, Emo de MEDEIROS, Hady SY

November 9 - 11 2018, Opening November 8 
Carreau du Temple, 4 rue Eugène Spuller 75003 – Paris France

FOAM is out now with a 17 pages photo story on the Regla series (Cuba). Text by Cuban art curator Iliana Cepero
FOAM Magazine #51, Seer/Believer: The mythical Issue.

AfricAmericanos, curated by Claudi Carreras, will open at Centro de la Imagen in Mexico city on August 16, 2018.

The exhibition presents, for the first time in Mexico, the work of Nicola Lo Calzo with an installation of photographs from the series Obia, on Maroon people of Guianas.
Lo Calzo will be in Mexico from August 14 to 21  2018. In collaboration with L'agence à Paris.

AfricAmericanos, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico.
August 16 - November 4 2018.

Nicola Lo Calzo is nominated to the 3rd edition of the Prix Elysée.

Nicola Lo Calzo, for whom the Mediterranean has never been a border, aims to reacquaint us with a migrant, Binidittu, the name given to the hermit Saint Benedict the Moor, the son of African slaves and born in Sicily in the 16th century. Upon his death, the Afro-Sicilian friar became an icon. Canonized in 1807, he was the Catholic Church’s first black saint and was made Patron Saint of Palermo. Binidittu is a reflection on the treatment of migrants on the shores of the Mare nostrum, an allegory for our time.

Nicola Lo Calzo is recipient of 2018 CNAP fellowship by French Ministry of Culture with the new chapter of the Cham project: Binidittu.

Centre National des arts plastiques, Paris.

As part of Milano Photo Week, Internazionale invited Lo Calzo to a lecture around the Cham project with the writer and journalist Igiaba Scego.

Royal Palace, Sala delle Cariatidi, Milano. June 12, 2018. 12 am.

On the occasion of Photo Basel Art Fair, The Guardian publishes a photo issue about the ongoing project Cham. June 12, 2018.

Lo Calzo will present at Photo Basel with Balsa Arte Gallery from 12 to 17 June 2018.

As part of Ola Cuba! season, the series Regla, on Afro-Cuban microsocietes, is now exhibited at Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse in Lille with an installation designed by Nicola Lo Calzo.

In collaboration with Art Curator Justine Weulersse, Lille3000 production, l'Agence à Paris, Dominique Fiat and La Balsa Arté.

Musée de l'Hospcie Comtesse,
32 Rue de la Monnaie Lille France
May 5 - July 1, 2018.

The series Caravana, on the Fidel Castro funeral Caravan of Freedom, is exhibited in a solo show with Ola Cuba!, the Cuban contemporary art event in Lille.
Art Curator Justine Weulersse. Lille3000 production.

OLA CUBA!
Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille
Opening April 19, 7pm
April 19 - September 2 , 2018.

Africa Aperta - Part II Group Exhibition

Nicola Lo Calzo, Ndidi Dike, Safâa Erruas, Emo de Medeiros, Karin Miller, Rowan Smith

10 February - 28 April, 2018
Dominique Fiat Gallery
16 Rue des Coutures Paris

The first chapter of the Cham project runs in the French magazine Causette.
Photo story: Sur les traces de Cham, Text by Emilie Rouy – Photo Nicola Lo Calzo
31 Janvier 2013

VRIJ Nederland publish a 10 pagesphoto story on the new project Cham
De vloek en de handel Photo byNicola Lo Calzo, Text by Rudie Kagie
23  février 2013 - Luzphoto Agency

The Independent on Sunday
The New Review
Photo story Nicola Lo Calzo, Inside Niger
Article par Adam Jacques
17 mars 2013

Panel on "Contemporary Italian Photography: Some Insights"
Meeting with Nicola Lo Calzo (Photographer), Claudio Corrivetti (photographer and editor), Marco Barbon (photographer and theoretician of photography), Anna Di Prospero (photographer), Alessandro Imbriaco (photographer), Andrea Tonellotto (photographer) + slideshows
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 at 6 pm
The Percolateur, 67 rue Léon Bourgeois, 13001 Marseille

L'Agence à Paris (Stand 35A) present a selection of photograph from the Cham project at Mia Photo Fair in Milano from 8th to 12th March, with the works of Gosette Lubondo, Uche Okpa-Iroha and Andrew Tshabangu.

The series Tchamba (Togo, Benin) is published in the italian magazine Internazionale.

Il ritorno tra i vivi Photo story in issue 2th March, 2018. Many thanks to Elena Boille.

May 10, 2013, National Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery and their Abolition, Photography by Nicola Lo Calzo for the Government of France

The series Inside Niger features at the Jumièges Abbey, under the collective exhibition Water and Dreams.
Jean-Luc Monterosso & Dominique Goutard Curators
Jumieges Abbey, France
From April 27 to September 15, 2013

Mas is featured in Libération, Weekend May 11 2013 Issue
Frontpage + Portfolio : The price of Memory

Nicola Lo Calzo is among the winners of the PDN Photo Annual 2013, in the Photo book category, with the book Inside Niger by Kehrer publisher.

A selection of photogaphs from the ongoing project Cham are featured in the Italian magazine L’Espresso 
Text by Pietro Veronese
Photographs by Nicola Lo Calzo-Luzphoto

Nicola Lo Calzo (curator Laura Serani) is the winner of the Biennale Giovani Monza 2013. His work will join the collection of the Pinacoteca Civica di Monza. The 2013 edition of the Biennale Giovani Monza will take place in the monument Serrone of the Villa Reale. For this event, thirty recent artists will be represented. In conjunction with the event, a jury determine the acquisitions of the city of Monza and the winner of Arte Città di Monza. Curators: Laura Serani, Lorenzo Canova, Filippo Maggia, Stefano Roffi, Teresa Meucci, Carl Kraus, Peter Weiermair

The new series Ayiti features in exclusive in the french magazine Le Monde

Portoflio Liberté chérie Text by Benoit Hopquin
Photographs by Nicola Lo Calzo
July 27 2013 Issue

The series Inside Niger features at LagosPhoto Festival, Nigeria.
LagosPhoto Festival, Fourth edition October 26 – November 16, 2013
Opening: October 26, 2013 , 6 PM Ocean View, Eko Hotel & Suites, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos

Residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, as part of the Cham project, November 2013

Interview This Is the World’s Oldest Human Population
Text by Jordan G. Teicher
Photo by Nicola Lo Calzo

The series Ayiti features on the Aftenposten Magazine January 2014: Haitis slaverevolusjon

The Cham project  features in GEO magazine
10 pages portoflio Das gefühl, mit geistern zu tanzen
Text by Von Peter Hamburger, April 2014

Group exhibition Haiti, Effroi des oppresseurs, espoir des opprimés, Françoise Vergès curator

Memorial to the Abolition of Salvery
From May 10 to September 21, 2014
Quai de la Fosse – Passerelle Victor-Schoelcher - 44200 Nantes

Insurgents of the Caribbean a monographic exhibition by Nicola Lo Calzo at Tropenmuseum, following the photographs acquisition of Ayiti and Mas series for the Museum collection Tropenmuseum
From May 23 to July 20, 2014
Linnaeusstraat 2, 1092 CK Amsterdam The Netherlands

The series Casta features in the New Yorker with a text by American writer Hilton Als. June 26,2014.

The series Casta is published in Granta 128, American Wild, 16 pages
Text and Photo by Nicola Lo Calzo.

Artist–in-residence program in Saint Laurent du Maroni in French Guiana, as part of the Cham project, from September to November 2014.
This residence was made possible through the support of La Tête dans les Images Association, General Council of French Guiana, DAC Guyane, Service Patrimoine de la ville de Saint Laurent du Maroni, Rencontres photographiques de Guyane.

The series Casta is published in Le  Monde M
Text and photo by Nicola Lo Calzo.
Portfolio La mémoire fait sécession, 10 pages, 09.19.2014

The series Casta features in The Sunday Times Magazine.
Portfolio “Slavery? What slavery?”, 8 pages, 09.21.2014

Nicola Lo Calzo and the association La Tête dans les Images open a window on photography for middle and high school classes in Saint-Laurent du Maroni and Mana, in French Guiana.
From 7th to 17th October 2014, conferences on the photo-documentary Cham, Memories and legacy of slavery and slave trade will be proposed, as well as photographic workshops, real initiations to documentary photography.

Contact: Juliette Guaveïa
latetedanslesimagesguyane@gmail.com
La Tête dans les Images

The Salon de la Photo presents Les Grandes Rencontres, animated by Photographie.com
Thursday November 13th at the Paris Expo
Porte de Versailles

The Casta, Ayiti and Tchamba works will be exhibited by Dominique Fiat Gallery
With L’agence à paris

From November 13 to November 16, 2014
Paris Photo, Grand Palais Stand: B17

Guyane, à 150 bornes de la liberté, my reportage on ostracism and discriminations of LGBTI community in French Guiana, released in the current Têtu issue, Avril 2015. 8 pages. Text and photo by Lo Calzo. With the collaboration of AIDES Guyane.

Obia – Nicola Lo Calzo
Memorial to the abolition of slavery

from May 10 to September 30 2015
Quai de la Fosse – Passerelle Victor-Schoelcher - 44200 Nantes France

Production: Direction du Patrimoine et de l’architecture de la Ville de Nantes, l’agence à paris
Production assistance: Château des ducs de Bretagne, Musée d’histoire de Nantes
Texts: Françoise Vergés, Nicola Lo Calzo
Graphic design: Chiara Runci
Installation: Métalobil

Africa is no Island - Makaal - Marrakesh
February 24  – August 24 2018

In the occasion of the international launch of the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech, co-founders of Afrique in Visu, Jeanne Mercier and Baptiste de Ville d’Avray, working alongside independent associate curator Madeleine de Colnet have brought together artists who have previously worked with the platform and artists whose works are part of the museum’s collection.

The French magazine Marianne publishs an interview about the series Obia et the long term project Cham. 
Interview by Frédérique Briard 11/06/2015

The series Obia, Maroons of Suriname and French Guiana is published in German mag ZEIT, “Obia, Gott ist ein Papagei”.

The series Obia, Maroons of Suriname and French Guiana features in the New Yorker with a text by American writer and art critic Hilton Als. 06.08/06.15 issue. The 6 pages porfolio is also available on line.

The French magazine Libération features the series Obia with a text by Laura Troussière / 24th August 2015 Issue.

The series Obia is featured in the current issue of french magazine L’Obs. 
Portfolio “L’esprit des Marrons” / 25th June 2015 Issue.

Obia is on show at International Festival of Photography of Belo Horizonte in Brazil.

Obia – Nicola Lo Calzo
From  October 2 to November 29, 2015
CâmeraSete – Casa da Fotografia de Minas
Av Afonso Pena, 737 – Belo Horizonte – Brazil

Meeting about the work of Nicola Lo Calzo, with the journalist and photographer Mathieu Oui. Safe the date: 4th November 2015, 6h30 pm at Café Le Lescot, 5 Rue Lassus, 75019, Paris.

The project Obia runs in the italian magazine Internazionale, n°1129,  portfolio « Il profumo della libertà », 6 pages. Tags: maroon, maroonage, bushinengue, slavery, freedom, resistance, survival, legacy.

Mas – Nicola Lo Calzo Opening Thuesday June 21 7pm. Festival Allers-Retours 2016

Exposition collective Sortez des clichés ! Regard sur des patrimoines vivants Albert-Kahn Museum
14, rue du Port 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) From June 21 to October 2, 2016.

The series Tchamba (Togo, Benin) features with a photo story in the french magazine L'Obs.

Tchamba es-tu là? Photo story in issue 4th January, 2018.

The British Journal of Photography interviewed Nicola Lo Calzo  about my new book Regla and my ongoing project Cham.

Nicola Lo Calzo finds freedom and community in the Afro-Cuban legacy, Written by Eoin Murray.

The ongoing Cham project will be showed in the first solo exhibition, featuring all the works produced to date, curated by Monica Santos at La Balsa Arte Gallery in Bogotà. Opening saturday 21th October at 11 a.m.

Cham, A Work in Progress
La Balsa Arte, Carrera 5 No. 26C 47, Bogotá Colombia From 21th October, 2017 to 20th Januar,  2018. In collaboration with l’Agence à Paris.

For further information, you can write to  María Uribe: mariauribeolarte@gmail.com