Isabelle Hayeur
"Contrast and Indifference"

with Larissa Fassler, Cécile Hartmann, Capucine Vever

12 February – 16 May, 2026
Opening: Wednesday, 11 February, 6 – 9 pm

Isabelle Hayeur will be participating in the upcoming group exhibition "Contrast and Indifference" at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, where she will present a selection of documentary photographs created between 2012 and 2024. These works reflect her long-standing engagement with issues of environmental transformation, urban development, and the social dynamics that shape our landscapes. Hayeur’s art practice explores the relations between nature and the built environment, focusing on the conflicts and tensions that emerge within these shifting territories.

The artists brought together in the exhibition "Contrast and Indifference" travel the world, constantly confronting foreign contexts into which they allow themselves to enter, gently and attentively, and bear witness to what happens there. Travel is essential to their approach, as is a form of solitude conducive to observation and encounters. Guided by a critical awareness and a sensitivity to others, they reveal some of the staggering disproportions affecting humanity here and there on our planet. Avoiding the spectacular, by constantly connecting surface issues and deeper ones, they recount the tensions of the contemporary world. This two-part exhibition, co-produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris and the Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment in Québec.

Curator: Catherine Bédard

More information: https://canada-culture.org

Isabelle Hayeur's works have been exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York, the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, the Today Art Museum in Beijing, and the Rencontres internationales de la photographie in Arles. She has also participated in numerous artists’ residencies, including at the Rauschenberg Residency, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the Studios of Key West, the International Studio & Curatorial Program, A Studio in the Woods / Tulane University, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Wall House #2 Groninger Museum, among others.

More information: isabelle-hayeur.com