Curatorial Visit of the Paris Photo 2026 Digital Sector with Marco De Mutiis
by | Fanny Lakoubay | Nov 2026
On Wednesday, November 11, on the vernissage day of Paris Photo 2026, 100 collectors members met at the Grand Palais for a curatorial visit of the fair's Digital Sector with its curator, Marco De Mutiis. The group moved from booth to booth, looking closely at the works and talking with the gallery teams who brought them to Paris.
The Sector Through Its Curator's Eyes
Marco De Mutiis is Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur, where he researches how images are made and circulated through algorithmic technologies and networked environments. Walking the sector with the person who shaped it gave members a clear view of how the presentations speak to one another, and to the history of a medium that Paris Photo celebrates this year with the bicentennial of photography.
The 2026 Digital Sector brings together galleries from Europe, Asia and the Americas, several of them exhibiting at Paris Photo for the first time. Seeing them in one walk made the range of practices tangible: drone photography, digitised film, collage, AI, code and photographs that move between the lens and the screen.
From Beijing and New York to Milan
Among the first stops was Licheng Ling Projects, a first-time exhibitor from Beijing, presenting Light's Turning by Yumo Wu. Next door, Palo Gallery from New York showed the artist duo Orejarena & Stein, whose mixed media work looks at image culture and the American landscape.
At Glenda Cinquegrana from Milan, members discovered the French duo Mazaccio & Drowilal, whose collages built from advertising, paparazzi and social media images were shown alongside work by Silvio Wolf, who digitizes fragments of burnt film and prints them at large scale.
Seen From Above, Grown in the Imagination
At DANAE from Paris, the group stood in front of aerial works by Jacopo Di Cera, whose practice moves between photography, drone footage and digital art. A few steps away, Au Cube presented Vincent Fournier and Flora Incognita, a series of imagined plants that continues his long interest in how we picture the future of nature.
Caracas and Seoul
From Caracas, carmen araujo arte presented Alejandro Cartagena and Diana López, and the gallery team walked members through the works on the wall, where portraits, text and screen imagery are layered together.
The visit ended at byGRIDA, a leading digital art curator from Seoul based in Paris with the largest group in the sector, presented with Art on Tezos. Twenty artists, including Justin Aversano, HyeGyung Kim and Han Sungpil, share the booth, and the curator introduced members to a scene many were seeing for the first time.
Discovering Together
A fair the size of Paris Photo can be hard to read alone. Walking the Digital Sector as a group, with the curator's context and the galleries' first-hand knowledge, turned it into a shared conversation about where photography is heading and the artists taking it there. It is the kind of moment 100 collectors exists to create: collectors learning, connecting and engaging with digital art together, in person.
A big thank you to Marco De Mutiis for his generosity, time, and insight, to every gallery that welcomed us at their booth, and to all the members who joined the tour at the Grand Palais.