Location: Art Talks Area, Luxembourg Art Week
Language: French
Guest speakers:
Jude Hamze, artist and architect à Heritage Watch AI
Carine Krecké, Luxembourgish artist and author
Gian Maria Tore, Assist. Professor and Deputy head of the Romance Studies, Media and Arts at the University of Luxembourg
Moderator: Cécilia Zunt-Radot, director of Lët’z Arles
Les images à l’épreuve du regard : distance, mémoire, responsabilité (Images tested by the gaze: distance, memory, responsibility) will explore our relationship with images of war, violence, and catastrophe in a world of post-truth and visual overabundance. How can we maintain the right distance between empathy and critical reflection? By bringing together all kinds of images — technical, journalistic, amateur, and artistic — guests from diverse backgrounds will examine the responsibility of our gaze in the face of the ceaseless flow of images. Co-organized by Lët’z Arles, the University of Luxembourg, and the Institut français, this round-table will question the forms of storytelling capable of conveying without betraying — between the vertigo of seeing and the risk of denial.
Biographies
Jude Hamze is an architect, photographer, and artist based between Paris and Beirut. She works at Heritage Watch AI, an initiative founded in partnership with Iconem, Microsoft AI for Good Lab, Planet Labs, and ALIPH, focusing on issues related to heritage dynamics. Their work is dedicated to the preservation and documentation of cultural and natural heritage threatened by conflicts, disasters, and the rapid transformation of territories, through the use of satellite imagery, photogrammetry, 3D modelling, and other digital tools for reading and transforming images.
Alongside this, her artistic and photographic practice explores the relationship between architecture, image, and memory. Her subjects often focus on urban contexts marked by the fragility of the built environment and the transformation of territories, particularly in Beirut and cities across the Middle East. Through her work, she seeks to reveal ordinary scenes, façades, and storefronts as spaces where life, trace, and resilience intersect.
Carine Krecké (b. 1965, Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgish artist and author. Dealing with themes such as mass surveillance, war, violence or terrorism, her interdisciplinary works explore the connections between visual arts, literature, and geopolitics. Investigation methods relying on mapping and open-source data analysis are examined and even subverted within documentary projects that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, truth and falsehood, and even between the status of author and protagonist. Carine Krecké has published works of fiction and won national literary awards. Her visual art projects have been featured in international exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Vienna or Athens.
Gian Maria Tore is an assistant professor at the University of Luxembourg in visual studies and semiotics. He specializes in the analysis of artistic and media forms (books Re-, Repetition and Reproduction in the Arts and Media; seminar For a History of Montage Forms, École des arts de la Sorbonne, since 2021). His main research focuses on the encounter with the artwork (Revoir. Film, Experience and Knowledge, Vrin, 2025). He also teaches in the Film and Audiovisual BTS program and regularly collaborates with various art centers on curatorial and research projects (e.g. Musée National du Luxembourg, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille)
