In 2025, the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary at H tel Blain with a captivating exploration of mystery, magic, and occult worlds. This program invites visitors to cross the threshold of the invisible, delve into the unknown, and question beliefs that defy reason. Each exhibition becomes a passage, an echo of hidden traditions, an immersion into the elusive. Far from certainties, this sensory journey opens the doors of imagination and reveals the aura of mystery.
Through the figure of the Black Madonna, Saint Sara, the program examines popular beliefs that, between devotion and transgression, transcend cultures and eras.
Fotohaus amplifies this program with the theme “Controversy and Paradox”, inviting an exploration of the tensions and contradictions that arise when beliefs collide with reality. In a French and European society shaped by rationalism, spirituality is often relegated to the periphery of dominant discourse, oscillating between fascination and rejection.

Joan Alvado » Os batismos da meia-noite
Ian Cheibub » Alumbre na Macaia
Maja Daniels » Gertrud on the silence of myth
Alexandre Dupeyron » Ashes of the Future
Weronika Gęsicka » Encyclopaedia
Jann Höfer » Martin Lamberty » One Million Years
Laura Lafon » Présage Tirage Mirage
Silvia Prio » Gypsy Witches
Virginie Rebetez » Malleus Maleficarum
Wlad Simitch » Oppidum-Râ
Ann-Christine Woehrl » Witches in Exile