Arnaud Elissalde
Crossed Perspectives #1: Sound and Vision brings photography and music into dialogue. While Diego Gil traces its history in a talk and Simon Arcache photographs it on film, two other contributors take care of the sound itself: DJ Ana Del Amor, who opens the weekend on Saturday 1 August, and record dealer Patrice Rolle, aka Vintage Vinyl, who closes it on Sunday 2 August. Here are their two portraits. Free entry, Gaztelu Market Hall, Hendaye, from 31 July to 2 August 2026.
A musician and singer before becoming a DJ, Ana Del Amor puts her stage experience to work in a different exercise: accompanying an exhibition rather than filling a dance floor. On Saturday 1 August she opens Crossed Perspectives #1 alongside Simon Arcache's film photographs and the vinyl sleeves gathered for the occasion.
Her set is not designed as a standalone DJ set, but as an accompaniment for the eye. A musical selection that gives the images time, creating an atmosphere without ever drowning them, so that visitors enter the exhibition with their ears as much as their eyes. It is less spectacular than a club set, but more demanding: supporting without dominating, creating a sonic continuity between Simon Arcache's film prints, portraits of blues musicians from the American South, and the vinyl sleeves on display.
She owes this ability to adapt energy to a context to years on stage. Singing forces you to read an audience in real time, to sense what a room wants before it says so, to know when to push and when to hold back. She brings that same listening here, in a setting where music must serve the exhibition rather than impose itself on it.
The choice is not random. Rather than creating a neutral atmosphere, Ana Del Amor draws directly on the artists and bands represented by the vinyl sleeves on display. Her selection thus becomes a sonic extension of the scenography: visitors hear, at least in part, what the sleeves are already showing them in images. This way of setting a mix in dialogue with a record exhibition reverses the usual relationship between DJ and audience: it is no longer about building party energy, but about making audible what the vinyl on display only lets you see.
By opening the day, Ana Del Amor sets the mood in which visitors will discover the whole exhibition. A discreet but decisive way of making Sound and Vision an event where sound doesn't just play in the background, but is fully part of what the image makes you feel.
Saturday 1 August 2026, Gaztelu Market Hall, Hendaye
There are those who listen to music, and those who live it. A vinyl collector above all, Patrice Rolle has turned this passion into a job, a way of writing and a way of seeing: three ways of saying the same thing.
A travelling record dealer under the name Vintage Vinyl, he carries his crates from fairs to festivals, from concert halls to alternative venues, the way you carry a memory: of sleeves, pressings, forgotten B-sides. For him, a record is never just a medium. It is an object you look at as much as you listen to, an image and a sound brought together in one gesture: lowering the needle.
This dual attention runs through his whole career. Publishing director of the English-language cultural listings guide Life 64 from 2003 to 2006, writer and music columnist for Freemag, Factotum and various fanzines from 2001 to 2021: twenty years spent searching for the right words to talk about music.
Behind the decks he becomes Dj's Psyko Moreno, on the radio, in clubs, in museums and at cultural events. For him, mixing is less a technical performance than storytelling: a set is built like a photo story, with build-ups, breaks and pauses.
Patrice also photographs his travels and concerts, those moments when sound takes shape: a face in the spotlight, a crowd holding its breath, a musician's happy exhaustion between two songs.
"Memory, or the fear of forgetting to pass on happiness, of discovering new genres. Sharing and exchanging as a motto, and blossoming from continents to oceans.... A journey of the senses.
The image, another way of telling." (Patrice ROLLE)
This is precisely the dialogue at the heart of Crossed Perspectives #1: Sound and Vision. Photography freezes a moment; music makes it last. At Crossed Perspectives #1, Patrice Rolle brings the third voice to the Sound and Vision dialogue. Where Diego Gil traces the history of the record sleeve in a talk, and Simon Arcache photographs the intimacy of blues musicians from the American South on film, Patrice makes you hear what the other two make you see.
He provides the musical closing of the event on Sunday 2 August 2026 from 5.30pm, a mix designed as an extension of the exhibition rather than background music. A way of passing something of the blues grain shown in Simon Arcache's images on to visitors: the same documentary breath, the same intimacy between artist and lens.
He also contributes to Sound and Vision's display of vinyl sleeves, selected by Diego GIL and designed for the occasion by Olivier ROBERT, the Collective's artistic director. Some of the sleeves on display come from his own collection, the very one he has been carrying around for years as Vintage Vinyl. The record dealer lends his sleeves to the eye, while the DJ lends his selection to the ear: two sides of the same collector's gesture, put at the service of the exhibition.
The link between sound and image, explored from four different angles: Diego Gil's talk, Simon Arcache's photography and the mix, opening with Ana Del Amor and closing with Patrice Rolle. One material, four ways of making it resonate.
From 31 July to 2 August 2026, Gaztelu Market Hall, Hendaye. Free entry
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