Opening Reception with artist Lilly Lulay

Presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto
Part of the CONTACT Photography Festival

Meet Frankfurt photographer Lilly Lulay for her Canadian premiere exhibition and a conversation about the mental distraction and social disruption through our personal tech devices.

Contextualising program:
Soft Errors, Hard Truths  
Collective Cuts
Call & Response: Wilding AI
Call & Response: Vedran Dzebic on Design, Creativity & Empathic AI
Call & Response <> Mark Campbell

Born 1985 in Frankfurt, Lilly Lulay studied photography, sculpture and media sociology in Germany and France. Her works examine photography as a ubiquitous cultural tool. Aware of today’s overproduction of images, Lulay uses her own and other people’s photographs as raw material. In her mixed media projects, combining collage, laser cutting, embroidery, and more, Lulay turns photographs into palpable objects that comment on the influence photographic media have on social behaviour and mechanisms of individual and collective perception. The artist, currently showing in France, Belgium, Germany, and China, has won numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Munich Stadtmuseum Photography Collection's fellowship Artists on Photography 2025/26.

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Part of the 2026 program (re)Open Minds: Adapting to the Future

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Lilly Lulay
CONTACT Photography Festival